Word: doughnuts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DETROIT LIKE most urban areas is a doughnut city. The white flight to the suburbs has produced metropolitan centers in which lily-white rings surround black cores. While the suburbs prosper, sucking off more and more of society's wealth, the inner city, predominantly black, is left to wallow in poverty. America is becoming, or has already become, what Disraeli termed "two nations," in our case one white and rich, the other black and poor, each unable to bridge the gap of polarization...
...south of Tokyo, has come into view. With a series of deafening explosions, a newly born volcano has reared out of the sea, adding another small island to the Iwo Jima chain. After flying over the belching volcano last week, Japanese officials reported that the northern edge of the doughnut-shaped crater has risen some 160 ft. above sea level and the southern edge about 65 ft. Debris from the eruption has turned the Pacific reddish brown for miles around...
...Broadway and 46th Street Automat, an aging ex-vaudevillian named Edna Thayer belts out tunes like Don't Dunk a Doughnut Unless You Know How to Dunk...
...screwed down to the bone and fan belts for administering beatings. Prisoners claimed that they were tied up for interminable periods into positions that yogis could not assume. Ropes tied to a man's ankles, wrists and neck were tightened until he was bent over backward in a doughnut shape. Men were also bent forward into a position of a baby sucking its big toe. The ropes cut off circulation, and in several cases paralyzed limbs for months, even years...
...thermonuclear fusion, the same energy process that powers the sun. Under Nobel Laureate Nikolai Basov, Lebedev scientists are using high-energy laser beams in an effort to produce a plasma, or ionized gas, of sufficiently high temperature and density to sustain a fusion reaction. Kurchatov researchers are using powerful doughnut-shaped machines, acronymically named Tokamaks, to obtain the same results with intense magnetic fields. Academician Lev Artsimovich, head of the Kurchatov work, doubts that anyone will be able to produce power from fusion in less than 20 or 30 years. "When you hear scientists boasting that they will achieve...