groundside adv.
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1951
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Paul W. Fairman
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The hauled her down and booted her groundside.
Proud Asteroid in Amazing Stories Nov. 46/1 -
1961
Fritz Leiber
The new Administrator’s planning to ship us all groundside!
Beat Cluster in Galaxy Magazine Oct. 163/1 -
1983
William Gibson
.Think what their testimony will be doing to us groundside.
Red Star, Winter Orbit in Burning Chrome (1986) 113 -
1991
Larry Niven
Michael F. Flynn
Jerry Pournelle
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Things wouldn’t behave naturally groundside.
Fallen Angels 46 -
1992
Allen Steele
We've still got to refuel at the Phobos fuel depot and check out the boat for the ride home, and seven days groundside is the longest I can stretch it.
Labyrinth of Night 133 -
2013
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Tanith Lee
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On both occasions the problem was comparatively slight. A malfunctioning refrigeration unit flooding the storage deck; a solar flare of some kind that temporarily impeded communications with the station’s Connect HQ groundside.
Within the Ghost in Space is Just a Starry Night 208
Research requirements
antedating 1951
Earliest cite
P. W. Fairman, in Amazing Stories
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1961 cite from Fritz Leiber's "The Beat Cluster".Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2013 cite from Tanith Lee.
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