Word: korrect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explanation claims that when rugged, unerudite President Andrew Jackson finished reading the papers designed to dissolve the second United States Bank, he marked them "O.K." (oll korrect). Another explanation points out that when Jackson's henchman, President Martin Van Buren, ran for re-election in 1840, his slogan was OK-the watchcry of his political organization, the Old Kinderhook Club, of New York. Before the election, which William Henry Harrison won, the New Orleans Picayune chortled: "OK. These initials, which in party parlance are understood to mean Oll Korrect, are now used for-Orful Katastrophe...