Word: souvenir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without first donning canvas overshoes to protect themselves against burns from radioactive material which might lodge in their shoes. Scientists with radiometers like long-lensed cameras found several "hot spots" near the inner crater's edge, warned others to stay away. Reporters who enthusiastically pocketed souvenir bits of crater glass had second thoughts when someone recalled the effects of radiation on fertility. The radiometers proved that some of the souvenirs were actually still dangerous...
...White Sun. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, gave him an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal. In mass tribute, 163 grateful Chinese organizations gave him 500,000 Chinese dollars ($12,500 U.S.), a gold key to Chungking, an embroidered umbrella, a souvenir book and a scroll...
...ring notebook, a series of disconnected sentences and phrases, proved a gold mine for a French intelligence officer who found it near Berchtesgaden. He first regarded it as a mere souvenir. Then it was worked into a connected narrative, and peddled to newspapers in a dozen countries...
...Carter came back into the foxhole, two Japs charged. Carter fired twice, but his new rifle jammed, too. He grabbed a Jap rifle, yesterday's souvenir, and impaled one of the attackers on its bayonet. The other Jap swung his saber, split Carter's hand. But Bill Harrell still had one hand left. He raised the carbine, shot the saber-waving...
...Mickey Mouse Era. Cause of the inflation was no mystery. The Islands were picked clean by the Japs and goods are scarce. Souvenir-hunting G.I.s and well-heeled Filipinos snap up the thin leavings at any price. Moreover, the Filipinos themselves became accustomed to fantastic prices when the Japs flooded the Islands with their "Mickey Mouse" paper money. At one time, five pounds of rice cost 1,000 pesos in Jap printing-press currency...