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Word: astroboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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Usage:

...romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened to be at Peenemünde to observe Nazi rocket techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Kamikosmonaut | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

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