Word: cruller
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...have your choice of two different pastries to dip in your soup. The fried Chinese cruller is best. It's a foot-long stick of light, airy fried dough, and since it's not sweet, tastes good with either the sweet or plain soups. The other is mandarin pie, a leathery strip of dough with sesame seeds on top. Not as tasty as the cruller...
People of all ages stop to buy rice porridge or yu-t'iao, a deep-fried cruller that sells for 20. Others, in every available space, are somberly engaged in t'ai-chi-ch'uan, the balletic, trancelike exercise that is supposed to tone all muscles and compose the soul...
...Many companies report other benefits. One Indiana steel mill said that five nearby saloons had to shut down after it opened a good cafeteria, while the Prudential Insurance Co. found that nutritional deficiencies among its office help-especially young girl workers, who leaned heavily on soda-and-cruller lunches-have almost disappeared. Chicago's Encyclopaedia Britannica reported that the output of its office force has increased 300% in the past five years, with only a 60% increase in employees, attributes a good part of the gain to its cafeteria program. Other corporations find that a company dining room helps...
...arrivals who have had time to hang up their coats, fix their faces and conscientiously flutter a few papers. Young stenographers have found that they can squeeze in a few minutes of extra sleep by dashing for the office, dashing right out again for breakfast coffee and a cruller. Said a Boston stenographer: "If I couldn't look forward to some coffee and a cigarette after the first hour's dictation, I'd scream...
Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...