Book on Vietnam War Slang (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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McCammon's "Nightcrawlers" is online here:

http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/nightcrawlers/

A quote:
"I've found out that those other men were drenched by a chemical spray we called Howdy Doody - because it made you stiffen up and jerk like you were hanging on strings."

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> Maybe in=0A=
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> all new works of horror and the supernatural /=0A= J N Williamson=0A=
> 1984 1st ed.=0A=
> English Book Book : Fiction 306 p. ; 22 cm.=0A= Baltimore : Maclay, ;
> ISBN: 0940776189 9780940776180=0A= =0A= "Nightcrawlers" by Robert R.
> McCammon=0A= available online:=0A=
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> Robert R. McCammon who is a notable horror writer. He=0A= may have
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> > Searching Google Books, the same or shorter definition of Howdy
> >Doody=0A=  appears in:=0A= =0A=
> >  * The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional
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> > (2007) by Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell=0A= =0A=
> >  * The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and
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