Word: gopher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parody of literary criticism. Walt Disney latched onto the Pooh image in an hour-long cartoon, but substituted Hollywood caricatures for Shepard's illustrations of Pooh and his friends. Disney even went so far as to introduce a new animal hero into the Hundred Acre Wood--an absurd looking gopher who does nothing but stand out as a foreigner...
...moon walkers also gathered a valuable "shadowed" sample of lunar soil from what Duke called a "gopher hole" under a large rock. Shielded from the sun's relentless rays, the sample may still contain volatile chemicals that would otherwise have long ago been "boiled off" by the intense solar heat. Finally, as the long EVA drew to a close, the astronauts headed back toward Orion, setting a lunar record of 1 1 m.p.h. in their electric-powered cart and drawing a mild rebuke from Houston for speeding...
When Jones went off for holding soon afterwards. Harvard was on the run. But Owen outraced the Gopher defense to get a loose puck along the right boards and put it by Erickson. Harvard had apparently salvaged...
Entries: a gopher named Broke, a crow named Magnon, a donkey named Hodey, and another donkey (German) named Shane, a rabbit named Transit, a horse named Greeley, a sparrow called Agnew, an asp named Pidistra, an aardvark called A-million-miles-for-one-of-your-smiles. Also, reversing the order, a rat named Frank Lloyd, a collie named Melon, a pair of egrets called Miss Otis. Any more of that from the Caen guru, and his readers will all be like a raven named Stark...