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Word: okay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...racing shells glided to the starting line on the Thames last week, the Cambridge coxswain alerted his crew with the traditional British command: "Come forward . . . Are you ready . . . Paddle!" From the Oxford shell sounded a crisp "Okay, gang, let's go!" For the first time in its 97 years of racing Cambridge, the Oxford crew had a U.S. cox: spectacled, 21-year-old George Alexander Carver (Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rule Britannia | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...fellowship proposal strengthens the argument for Administration approval of the eventual construction of a theatre. Money for building such a theatre is not available now. But an Administration okay would encourage gifts from people interested in drama who would not otherwise contribute to the University's unrestricted funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtain Time | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

...parachute. Suddenly the valley below, surrounded by paddy fields striding up sharp-shadowed mountains, leaped into garish light. Bandbox identified the target-an east-west ridge with a saddle in the middle-and Firefly called down an Invader. The Invader pilot, however, could not find the target ridge. "Okay, boy," said Firefly, 'Til turn on my landing lights and point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN ASIA,THE AIR WAR: Night into Day | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...realize that you really deserved the front pages," the pilot tells him. Misty-eyed Patricia Neal embraces Wayne back at Pearl and everything is Okay...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/16/1951 | See Source »

...explains the process this way; "When the last girl got married, I called up the Globe and said that Mary Stokes would be their new correspondent. Mr. Merrill (the Globe's city editor) was a little angry, but in a few days he called back and said she was okay...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Radcliffe Watches Over "Good Name" | 12/16/1950 | See Source »

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