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Word: planetoid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...point to with pride. He volunteered, served with the 82nd Airborne Division, landed in a glider in Normandy, won a chestful of decorations for gallantry, transferred to the Pacific and came home a lieutenant colonel. He spun through a gubernatorial campaign against ten opponents like a maverick planetoid, and became the tenth South Carolinian governor from Edgefield County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Southern Revolt | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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