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Word: okay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...hundreds pressed against the barbed-wire fences, waving MPCs and begging soldiers to sell them anything from bedsheets to underwear. Outside of Seoul's white-bricked PX, runny-nosed Korean shoeshine boys wailed far into the night: "Hey, G.I., no momma, no poppa, you catch my G.I. money okay? Don't be a sonavabitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Switch Day | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...Americains and not Frenchmen, who were being shot at the time, the sheik called for silence, indicated he would give me the test. In complete silence he stuck his wrinkled face up to mine and said, with a look of infinite cunning, the only American word he knew: 'Okay.' I replied emphatically, 'Okay.' The sheik shouted his approval, the tribesmen clapped their hands, and the Berber women set up their welcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Okay, sonny, where are them '54 tags, ya should have put 'em on fifteen minutes...

Author: By H. E. Edmunds, | Title: Riot in Cell 28 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Okay, Mac, lets have your personal belongings, wallet, belt, shoelaces, everything...

Author: By H. E. Edmunds, | Title: Riot in Cell 28 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...took the beating of his life. The result speaks for itself. This is the end of an era. You can't hold back youth." The boxing commission's doctor, Vincent Nardiello, wrote a finis to Willie's career: "His reflexes are gone ... I will never okay him to fight again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Exit the Old Master | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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