Word: souvenir
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...Sicilan-American soldiers she believes are in the area, is killed by the enemy. As she dies, she imagines the young German soldier bending over her to be a member of her own clan, beckoning her to a mythical Brooklyn with the magic snow of a Statue of Liberty souvenir. And when Cecelia finally encounters the first real American soldiers, she cannot speak with them, so they make her balloons out of their supply of condoms to carry back to the group as a beacon of hope...
...enterprising freshman is trying in develop a new souvenir--Harvard Ivy on-cased in plastic--for tourists who want to bring back home their very own piece of the Yard...
...have been other attempts to recover the bounty of the Mary Rose. In 1836 John Deane, using the first workable underwater diving helmet, teamed with his brother Charles to bring up some of the guns of the famous ship, along with a few timbers that were then made into souvenir inkwells and walking sticks. After four years, the entrepreneurial divers shut down their operation. The exact whereabouts of the Mary Rose was gradually forgotten...
...heard the Phillies would be helping the Minnesota Twins christen their new ballpark this spring, Pete wanted the first baseball hit safely in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is rolling around in his dresser drawer now. "I might as well get them all," says Rose of the souvenir balls that have marked his trail like Hansel's breadcrumbs. "Soon I'll have made more outs than anybody, and I want that baseball...
...hustlers park on the two main roads just past the track, hawking hats and T-Shirts, cotton candy, corn dogs, tacos, pizza and Coke, belt buckles, water pistols, megaphones, toy cars, checkered flags, souvenir plates and shot glasses, necklaces, feathers, earrings and pennants. Almost everyone takes a piece of the race home with them...