Word: doughnut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brownies worked furiously while Mamie met a dachshund pup named Ike, told him: "Why hello, Ike, I'll tell Ike I saw you today." She shook more hands and gave more autographs in a big, scrawling hand. When she climbed into her limousine, she was still clutching her doughnut. A thoroughly captivated crowd watched her wave it as the car pulled away...
High Water. As hurricanes go, Carol was not unusually violent. Much of her damage, aside from the steeple, toppled trees and tangled wires, was caused by storm tides. A hurricane has several devices for raising the water level. In the "eye of the storm," the center of the spinning doughnut, barometric pressure is abnormally low. So the sea is sucked upward, sometimes as much as four feet. In Carol's case this effect was minor. The pressure in her center probably did not fall below 28.4 inches (of mercury) and so could not have lifted the sea level much...
...Charter Hill above Berkeley, Calif, a strange and monstrous machine, the AEC's bevatron,* was slowly coming to life last week. Housed in a circular building 75 feet high is a steel doughnut 135 feet in diameter and weighing 10,000 tons. This is the world's greatest magnet, energized by current flowing through 26.5 miles of copper cable two inches thick. When its current was first turned on, a crashing clatter shook the bevatron building as iron objects on the floor rearranged themselves violently to fit the invisible pattern of its magnetic field...
...cosmotron, a "doughnut" 70 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. in cross section, needs 2,000 tons of steel for the magnets that keep its protons on circular orbits. To build a 25 bev machine on this same pattern would have required a fantastic amount of steel. Chief difficulty: the particles cannot be kept on accurate orbits, and so they must be provided with a wide (32 in. cross section) vacuum chamber. It takes massive steel magnets to fill this space with the necessary magnetic field...
...kiva of the Koshare troop, a capacity crowd of 400 watched while the dances began with the ceremonial lighting of a fire. Soon the Mudheads bounded in. The Mudheads are idiot children born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos had their turn...