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  • Some go straight to the private sector and others head up or get on the boards of 'googoos' (good government groups, e.g. Henry Stern).

    Arlene M. Roberts: Pork at City Hall 2008

  • "googoos" and "gagas" and interact less with adults than children whose parents use the off switch more enthusiastically.

    New Scientist - Online News 2009

  • CFLs may be “cheaper” in the eyes of the googoos (to bring back a roughly 100 year old term for Good government, as it can do no wrong, types) but what about the mercury in CFLs?

    The $10 Million Light Bulb - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Obama's home, Hyde Park, is a bastion of good government types (googoos in machine parlance).

    Obama: If They Bring A Knife, We Bring A Gun 2009

  • The googoos of the suckabolly in the rockabeddy are become the copiosity of wiseableness of the friarylayman in the pulpitbarrel.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Demons and googoos and whatever everywhere, and don't so much as cross a road without choosing a propitious day from the calendar - it's as bad as Tibet or Nepal or somewhere like that.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • I intended to follow here was merely that which Nature has long since taught to the beaver and which, moreover, is known and practised by the gauchos of the pampas, by the googoos of Rhodesia and by many other tribes.

    Frenzied Fiction Stephen Leacock 1906

  • Barack Obama isn't going to win hearts and minds with the googoos who watch Fox News, no matter how much he smiles and makes nice.

    The Reid Report 2009

  • In fact, the history of U.S. military campaigns against nonwhite combatants is characterized by a brutality that feeds on an underlying and persistent racism that comes through in the language used to describe the enemy other, from “the only good Injun is a dead Injun” in the genocidal wars against Native Americans, to “savages,” “googoos,” “Japs,” “Chinks” and “gooks” in the various wars in Asia, beginning with the 1899 Philippine-American War, to “ragheads” in the case of the Iraqis.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • There was two commuters, one loaded down with a patent runner sled, the other chewin 'a cigar impatient and consultin' his watch; a fat woman with a six-year-old who was teasin 'to go see Santa Claus in the window again; a sporty-lookin' old boy with a red tie who was blinkin 'googoos out of his puffy eyes; and then there was me, draped in my new near-English top coat and watchin' the swing doors expectant.

    Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

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