Word: souveniring
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...battle over for the moment, the troops rested. Several of the Rangers began to stalk the small sparrowlike birds that frequent Vietnamese canals; from time to time, one of the soldiers would lunge for a bird and fall into the water, to the uproarious laughter of his comrades. Souvenir-hunting Rangers moved among the wounded Viet Cong prisoners, pulling from their fingers their silver identification rings...
...American Airlines jet on take-off has dropped from the radar departure scope." Van Epps's first move was to call police to guard the wreckage from ghoulish souvenir hunters. Minutes later, he was over the wreck in a helicopter. By midafternoon, a specialist team from Washington had arrived to help, and a full-scale investigation was well under...
Mack anticipates increased sales as a result of the Latinization measure and is even offering souvenir cards suitable for framing to non-House members at a reduced price...
...something they can see-and show off to other people." And then there are those who send trophies instead of poison-pen letters. One Marine officer, eager to express his opinion of a football referee, ordered a "Biggest Bonehead of the Year" trophy, and even supplied the bonehead: a souvenir Japanese skull, which Robbins gold-plated and suitably engraved. Another football referee, who was castigated for an outrageous yardage measurement, received a statuette of a referee with no hands...
...Pants. Caldwell's special quality is a wonderful ease; he evokes humor or horror without bravura or its opposite, the smug underplaying that leaves the reader, at the end of so many short stories, disappointedly clutching a glazed lump of irony in the form of a souvenir ashtray. Caldwell gives away no pottery. In a leisurely way, yet wasting no time with scene-setting, he lays out his dialogue and his few spare sentences of narration. The characters take shape quickly as the story forms. At the end, amazingly often, what the reader takes away is not a mood...