Word: souvenired
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...fire that burned for three days, melting the crystal chandeliers, blackening what remained of the ornate bas-reliefs and frescoes, consuming even the ranks of ivory chairs. For nearly two decades, the ruins of the 125-year-old home of the Bavarian State Opera stood as a grim souvenir of the war, a macabre memorial to its own glorious past...
...once, talk about a thaw in the cold war seemed realistic. Last week President Kennedy signed the test ban treaty, handed around 16 souvenir pens to Senators and Administration officials who were in the White House for the occasion. In response, Russia's Premier Khrushchev sent out messages of congratulation saying that the treaty opened the way to solution of "other ripe international issues...
Ensor sought omens of a different sort in the world he knew. He detested the mob for its human hebetude. Every year, Ostend had a carnival whose revelers, it seemed to him, lost their sense of identity behind their garish masks. Without straying far from his family's souvenir shop, Ensor detailed the seven deadly sins in modern dress, and added a few of his own observation. He often showed Christ not as an object of adoration but as an unmasked redeemer swamped in a sea of masquerade...
...Philippine government presented him with a 30-lb. chunk of reddish granite. The stone was cut from the mouth of Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, where in 1942 U.S. and Philippine troops held out for four months against Japanese forces. Said MacArthur, his eyes misty as he touched the souvenir: "Corregidor-a wartime rock -but in it, it holds the symbol of the honor of two great nations...
...sand, every night (under a perfect moon) another tropical taste of the revelry of luau. But in only ten years, Waikiki has been transformed into some thing that seems to belong more to southern Florida than it does to the once magical islands of Hawaii. Soft-drink and souvenir stands clutter the beach front, the famed beach itself is often so crowded that it looks like Coney Island on a Sunday, and hawkers are everywhere ($8 for a twilight cruise plus a cup of rum punch in a catamaran...