Word: souveniring
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...security division issued press credentials, which were a copy of an Indian poem printed on yellow paper. The poem had been sold as a souvenir at the museum prior to the takeover. Security officials, armed with guns, checked credentials at the AIM roadblocks, which were located about 100 yards from the center of the village...
Food appeared plentiful in small sidewalk markets. Indeed, there were hundreds of little shops selling everything from butcher knives to onions. There was even a souvenir shop selling a few empty bottles, some screws left by the French and bits of downed American aircraft. Free beer is distributed at various points around the city...
...Howdy from the middle of nowhere," say the souvenir postcards sold in Gila Bend, Ariz. The tiny town (pop. 1,700) is a truckers' and traveling salesmen's way station along Highway 80, which ribbons through the cactus-dotted desert between Tucson and Yuma. But Gila Bend is not the middle of nowhere any more. Last week reporters from both Europe and the U.S. poured into town, thronging the bar of the local Elks' Club and pressing into a dusty little courtroom decorated with a painting of Wild Bill Hickok being gunned down in a Deadwood saloon...
...insisted that prisoners put down their mosquito netting at night. Occasionally P.O.W.s received injections-with painfully dull needles-of quinine and vitamins. Three weeks before their release, rations were doubled and the P.O.W.s were given straw mats for bedding; Utecht sensed that his imprisonment would soon end. As a souvenir, he smuggled out a leg chain that was used to shackle prisoners...
...like for people to call me Sir Larry. It makes me feel popular." Very popular indeed after 42 years on the screen, Laurence Olivier was giving a rare television interview in London to Dick Cavett. He clearly relished showing off a souvenir of his long movie career: an arrow wound on his left shin from the filming in 1956 of Richard III, but the old veteran was feeling his years when Cavett asked how he would play Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew, as he did when he was 15. Olivier, 65, quickly replied: "I'd play...