Word: ok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other day, a fly-by-night peddler who was "after the cotton money" invaded Wharton County: "He said, well I'll buy a license and I said we don't sell licenses for that sort of stuff, he said then if I go ahead and I said OK I won't cry, and if some of your peddlers get shot by local citizens . . . don't you cry, he said oh well I'll put a big black circle around Wharton county and work the rest of the state and nation. I told him good...
...trust-arranged for Klock to give Robert a special, intensive summer course in chemistry. They brought their lunches to the laboratory. While Klock brewed strong tea in beakers over a Bunsen burner, Rbbert turned out "a bushel of work" that never failed to rate the coveted Klock rubber stamp: "OK-AK." In six weeks, Robert completed a year's course. Says Klock: "He was so brilliant that no teacher would have been skillful enough to prevent him from getting an education." Robert got his introduction to the atomic theory ("A very exciting experience . . . beautiful, wonderful regularities...
...those ships are waiting for coal as fuel for Italy, OK. If it's for fuel for the ships themselves, they'll rust at the docks. Liberty ships . . . are oil-burners...
Last week, F.D.A. delivered its verdict: bubble gum seems to be OK. Except for aching jaws, which can be acquired from chewing either gum or wax, there were no bad reactions to the tests. F.D.A.'s conclusion: "There is therefore no basis at present for legal action against bubble...
...plenty of good peanuts, And giveth his neighbor none, He shan't have any of my peanuts When his peanuts are gone. . . . Ok, won't that be joyful, joyful, joyful, Oh, that will be joyful, when his peanuts are gone. There were many variations on the same theme, e.g.: When his John Wanamaker's endurable, reversible, sit-on-'em and mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug hats are gone...