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Word: gordo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know if this radiocast will reach you guys way out there in your spaceship, but I really miss you. You're still the only other beings from Melmac who I know survived when the planet blew up. A lot of amazing things have happened to your old buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...adaptation of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, has begun to attract attention as a modestly budgeted sleeper that just might translate high-minded feminism into box-office success. Walker confides to his agent his plan to check on the proceedings, and he responds with weary irony: "Terrific, Gordo. You're just what they need down there. You can hassle Lee and piss on the press. Get drunk, start fights. Just like old times, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Accident Waiting to Happen Children of Light by Robert Stone | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...said. "It's called greed." No wonder. Fed by three successive drawings that failed to produce a big winner, New York's lottery jackpot had ballooned to a record $22.1 million, the highest ever in North America. (The world's largest: Spain's El Gordo, "the Fat One," which in 1983 amassed a $73 million pot.) In the final days before the drawing, tickets for the outsize prize were selling at the frenzied rate of a million an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling on a Way to Trim Taxes | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...determine the flight characteristics of various types of insects in zero-g. The bugs did not seem to get the idea. Except when their plastic containers were jostled by the astronauts, they mostly clung to the walls. The astronauts were sympathetic. Said Lousma: "You don't see Gordo flapping his wings in zero-g either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Bugs, Bees and Balky Radios | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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