Book on Vietnam War Slang

[Jonathan Lighter]

According to Wikipedia, Robert McCammon was born in 1952 and received a
bachelor's in journalism in 1974.

He seems not to have served in Vietnam.

JL


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:57 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>
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> > Maybe in=0A=
> > Masques : =0A=
> > 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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> > "Nightcrawlers" by Robert R. McCammon=0A=
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> > http://www.robertmccammon.com/fiction/nightcrawlers.html=0A=
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> > Dalzell cites Robert R. McCammon who is a notable horror writer. He=0A=
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> >> Searching Google Books, the same or shorter definition of Howdy
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> >>  * The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional
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> >> (2007) by Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell=0A=
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> >>  * The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional=
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