Book on Vietnam War Slang

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks, Stephen. Yes, I think Robert R. McCammon's short story
"Nightcrawlers" is the right work. Tom Dalzell points to "Blue World"
which is a collection of short stories by McCammon. Using "Amazon Look
Inside" it is possible to see the page with the "Howdy Doody" match
and the table of contents; together they indicate that the match is in
"Nightcrawlers". The full text of "Nightcrawlers" that Stephen located
shows the same matching passage about the (perhaps fictional) "Howdy
Doody" chemical agent.

Garson

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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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=
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>> Searching Google Books, the same or shorter definition of Howdy Doody=0A=
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>>  * The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Engli=
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>>  * The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional=
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