Word: okayed
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...okay to deny people a good night's sleep because they have to work three jobs a day to keep off the streets. It is not okay for the richest educational institution in the world to deny people enough food to feed their families. It is not okay to pay human beings who work for you less than a living wage; that is morally wrong. Living wage. The words say it all. Workers in the richest country in the world, working in the richest university in the world, are being denied a living wage--just enough money to feed them...
make sure people were okay," she said...
...family was there. I talked to them on the phone. They were calm, supporting one another; my great aunt told me things would hit her later--when she was home alone. But Grandma and Granddaddy, assorted aunts and uncles were there then. It was okay...
...indulgence in writing it. Even in telling my friends why I was grumpy or having a bad week, there was a minute calculation. How to say it, how to shrug one's shoulders. How to elicit their concern without their pity, and then assure them that it really is okay, so as not to break up the conversation. It is not that my friends are uncaring. It's not even that strangers are cold. They simply do not know the part of me that has been hurt...
...clearly my fault," Stone said. "We were going over something we wanted to do on the power play, and it actually worked in the third period, so it's okay. Fortunately we feel real good about our penalty kill. But we have to be careful...