Word: goo
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...England novelist named Eleanor H. Porter, was an irresistible tearjerker that drenched the pillows of grandma's generation and added to the language a new word for the sort of softheaded optimist who can see no evil, especially in the mirror, and who hysterically insists on confusing goo with good. The story distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book had been made into a Broadway hit and a Hollywood movie starring Mary Pickford. Forty years later, with...
...Navy's solid-fuel Polaris missile, slated for submarine duty late this year, scored its fifth straight success in a prototype surface firing from Cape Canaveral, soared goo miles downrange into the Atlantic...