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Cumshaw, kum′shaw, n. a gift, a tip.

On the basis of files fed to them by at least one disgruntled former assistant to Dodd, they charged that the white-haired, square-jawed former FBI agent accepted a concatenation of cumshaw from all manner of individuals and companies seeking official favors from him.

Yet Senior Chief Petty Officer Bernard G. Feddersen, 35, of the Seabees, is renowned from Danang to the Delta as the sharpest cumshaw artist in all Southeast Asia.

It was a perfect situation for cumshaw, and fortunately Bernie Feddersen was on hand.

He also throws in plenty of "snivel"�the cumshaw artist's constant con talk.