I got five double sawbucks out of my wallet and dropped them in front of him.

This convinced the ARVNs that they had caught VC looters red-handedly stealing from the PX.

... the word tupilak is used of a small carving 10 or 15 cm high representing a grotesque or composite being, stretched and slightly curved, following the shape of the sperm-whale tooth out of which it is carved. Some of these tupilat are inspired ...

Laye hondes sodely on no man nether be partaker of other mes synnes: kepe thy silfe pure.