Word: doughnut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Random Harvest. In Yokohama, a sentry spotted two Japs in a forbidden area, fired in warning, cut the power line to a Red Cross doughnut factory, ruined 56,000 doughnuts...
Between the poles of the magnet is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube, 74 inches across. A heated filament sprays electrons (particles of negative electricity) into the tube. The intense electric field stirred up by the magnetism between the poles makes the electrons whirl round & round the tube in a circular orbit. In 1 240th of a second they make 250,000 complete circuits. The enormous velocity of all this whirling, measured in electrical terms, is equivalent to 100 million volts...
...Denver, Doyt Avery, 39, who served 31 months as a combat MP, nursed a fast-growing business in Pronto Pups, a product combining features of the doughnut, the hot dog, the popsicle. He was confident that other veterans would want to buy agencies...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. ended whispered speculation among his subordinates by explaining the mystery of the doughnut-shaped cushion he carried through the Battle of the Bulge. While the General stood, it circled his arm; when he sat, it was under him. The burning question was: had hard-riding old Georgie Patton finally gone soft? The explanation: on the night Rundstedt attacked, the General took a fall in his blacked-out headquarters, bruised his coccyx...
...Americans. The Germans kept on wheeling around the town, by the next day had it surrounded, a little island fortress in a swirling sea of gunfire. Headquarters, hoping for a weather break for air attack, radioed Bastogne for its positions. Replied Bastogne: "We're the hole in the doughnut...