Word: doughnuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varieties of beer mug, stationery, various organizations, and, it would appear, almost every other amenity of college life. They, of course, are in addition to that most obnoxious gentleman of all, the one armed with whistle and squeaky red wagon. He comes every night, chanting the litany of doughnut and sandwich in a voice loud enough to inspire even the angels to join in the rush downstairs...
Hurricane Carla, which smashed into Texas last week, was a whirling doughnut of wind, but like most hurricanes it used water to do its worst damage. Torrential rain raced ahead of the storm, giving Gulf Coast lowlands a preliminary flooding. Then, while the eye of the hurricane was still well offshore, great, white-topped waves cruised out of the sea and crashed across the land. Coastal settlements were washed out; those lying farther inland were flooded by fast-flowing water and picked to pieces by the screaming wind. Buildings that might have been strong enough to stand up to Carla...
...Floating Doughnut. A 14-ft.-diameter, circular fiber-glass motorboat is being offered for sale in Japan by Yamaha Motor Co. Designed for leisurely cruising with the calm sensation of a water lily, or as a roomy fishing boat or diving platform, it is driven by an outboard motor installed through a hole in the center. Price in Japan...
Died. Fu Tak-iam, 67, who started as a Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...
...cardboard eye that appears to wink whenever the angle at which light hits it is changed. Suda placed the come-hither eye in a 12-in. doll made of black sheet plastic inflated with air. Besides its stubby, clinging arms, the dakkochan boasts ring-shaped ears, a red doughnut mouth and a plastic grass skirt. Girl dakkochans can be told from boy dakkochans by the fact that the girls have hair bows...