Word: souvenir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still, by major hurricane standards Florida's mowing was merciful. Several babies were born safely while things were at their worst, and some got souvenir names-e.g., Glory Be and Merry Gale...
They were the only survivors. In the floating wreckage, dotted with empty Mae Wests, abandoned flight jackets and gaudy, souvenir kimonos, five bodies were recovered, a sixth sank just as the Hermes came alongside. George Atcheson was among the four passengers and crewmen still missing...
During the first meeting around the brand-new green baize (the old cloth had been stolen by a souvenir hunter after last year's peace conference), Molotov sat and listened to Bevin and Bidault. They wanted to establish international commissions to Marshall-plan European recovery on a continental basis. Then, with instructions from the Kremlin, Molotov spoke...
...polished fruits of Britain's gayer days. All of the exhibits were made prior to 1830 (the official criterion of antiques), and most were British-made, although there were also spoils of the age when Britons were the world's wealthiest, most avid and widely traveled souvenir-hunters...
Something for the Boys. While waiting for him to die, and waiting their turn to shout the play-by-play into the hall telephone, souvenir-hunting correspondents helped themselves to everything that was loose. One pried the bullet out of the back of Tojo's chair. A photographer hobbled off with a samurai sword inside his pants leg, but an officer stopped him. "We stood around," Lee recalls, "smoking and talking and making bets on how soon Tojo's small chest would stop heaving." After two hours an Army doctor arrived...