Word: hoke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument over a unique American contribution-O.K. Some scholars have always insisted that the term originated with Andrew Jackson, a notoriously bad speller who was supposed to mark official documents O.K. for oll korrect. Woodrow Wilson used okeh on the theory that the word came from the Choctaw hoke, meaning "Yes, it is." Mathews' preference: that it sprang up first during the presidential campaign of 1840, when Van Buren's supporters organized a mysterious O.K. Club. The initials were those of Van Buren's home town: Old Kinderhook...
Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, will head the Eliot House panel; McGeorge Bundy, Lecturer on Government, Robert G. McCloskey, assistant professor of Government, Hoke Norris, and Joseph C. Palamountain will appear at Adams House...