Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock everything is quiet. Chinese troops in grey-blue uniforms are squiggling around in the foreground. Suddenly Major John J. Pakula, American air officer, says: "Okay, they're on their way in." A Chinese officer yells "Yenmutan" ("smoke shell") to his telephonist...
Slap for Slap. Fortunately for Emily, the Japs greatly respected Major Boxer's record of wily diplomacy: "Everybody say British bad, Boxer okay, girl friend okay," they told Emily. But Emily remained her unpredictable self. She gave Jap officials English lessons in return for food, even went to dinner with them ("People [in New York] raise their eyebrows at this attitude, but nobody in occupied territory would. I wish you could have a month of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong"). Once she got tipsy, slapped the Jap Chief of Intelligence in the face. He came...
Davidson was in action over France last May when flak forced him to crash-land. Over his radio he shouted to his mates: "Tell my wife I'm okay!" While Germans hunted for him, he hid in a wheat field. "I heard a German officer give the order to shoot me on sight. Later they brought hounds . . . but the wonderful French people came to my aid. They milled all around the aircraft and so confused the dogs that it was impossible for them to pick up my scent." After dark, the French took him to a farmhouse, gave...
...sense of humor of the average American boy. "Coming out of Tarawa we had to amputate a young marine's leg. He cried a little bit when we told him we had to do it. But next morning when I asked him how he felt, he grinned 'Okay! There's not so much of me to hurt now.' There was another kid who was in extremis when we brought him aboard. He had been shot from only a few feet away and he had a big hunk of his chest blown out. He pulled...
...That hit us all pretty hard. About all I could say was 'Okay, Big Friend. Lots of luck to you all.' Then the pilot's own chute opened just before the bomber flipped over her wing and went streaming down in flame...