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

Outside the News office in the long night, Paul would listen to the lonely wail of the locomotives that brought the world to Ada-the engines of Santa Fe; the Frisco ; the Oklahoma City, Ada & Atoka R.R. that took Ada to the State capital 85 miles away. Inside the News office Paul boiled down facts & figures about the teeming life of Oklahoma's oil wells, zinc and lead mines, cotton and alfalfa fields, stockyards and cement mills into daily news for Ada's readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Steppes of Oklahoma | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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