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Word: gecko (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dawayne Goodburn considers them "good family pets, very clean and companionable and easy to feed." He recently sold a 5-ft. South American boa to a family with 2½-year-old girl triplets. Snake-fancying Sophomore Laurie Vitt of Western Washington State College has a python, rattlesnake, tokay gecko and two boas, which he keeps in his room with his tarantulas when his parents entertain. One evening, he was treating the boas to some live white rats when the guests, hearing the squeals, wandered in. "For some reason," says Laurie, "everybody stopped drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: Unloading the Ark | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...French colonial capital of Pnompenh, women glide silently in their vivid sampots (floor-length sarongs), while pousse-pousses (pedicab taxis) clog the broad, tree-lined avenues. Orange-robed Buddhist monks contemplate under bougainvillaea and tamarind trees, watched by some of the mangiest dogs west of El Paso. From gardens gecko lizards cry "Gecko, gecko, geck-o"-and some consider this the nearest thing to logic one hears in Pnompenh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Prince & the Dragon | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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