Douglas's "Wall Street" role

Usage examples of gekko.

He stopped, sucking oxygen, four paces beyond the smashed Bug, staring at the Gekko ghost town.

All were charged with murdering more than ten thousand Gekko civilians in a nuclear strike near the end of the fighting.

Grimacing, the Gekko went on to get similar answers from the young crew chief, concluding his case.

Thanking Leo, Tammy got the pilot to describe the military installations in the target city, showing that the Gekko guerrilla bands bleeding the settler militia were based among non-combatants.

But the Gekko prosecutor responded by asking if the strike craft carried smart-munitions, which the weapons officer admitted it did.

Ceremoniously shooting them for destroying a smallish city did seem ludicrous, since humans had gone on to kill every Gekko on the planet.

Glass remnants of Gekko towns shone amid silent green swamps and marshes inhabited by herds of hippos who were busily converting the greenery into fish food and fertilizer.

Leo, Tammy got the pilot to describe the military installations in the target city, showing that the Gekko guerrilla bands bleeding the settler militia were based among non-combatants.

The gekko grip on my hands made glassy, treacherous holds laughably comfortable.

Fresh energy curled up my arms with the unlooked-for hilarity, into my gekko hands, new tensile strength down the length of every finger.

Here were bottle after bottle of dried lizards: the harmless albino cave gekko from Costa Rica, a bottle full of dried saliva glands from the Gila monster of the Sonoran Desert, two jars full of the shriveled corpses of the tiny red-bellied lizard of Australia.

Anything like the gekko or house lizard that dashed about everywhere and devoured flies and mosquitoes was devoutly welcomed.

In those days her name was Gekko, Moonbeam, and though there were many foreigners in Nagasaki at that time, she knew not one of them, her House catering only to Japanese of the highest order.

In Yedo, at the limit of their money, Gekko and Shin managed to find safe lodgings in the slums of the city.

Meikin had sent for tea and they drank in silence, Gekko trembling inside, afraid that the threat had gone too far, sure that the other woman was wondering where the information came from, and how she, a stranger--dangerous enough in itself--came by the knowledge.