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Word: okaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese is the least complaining soldier I have ever seen. He carries tremendous loads over terrific distances. His greeting is almost always 'Ting hao' ('Okay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Ting Hao | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...back to headquarters okay and then, I don't know why, but I volunteered to help clean out another machine-gun nest. That night was a real show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Kelly Earns a Medal | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...casting offices. But she had a stronger will than most. When she crashed David Belasco's office and recited the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, he advised her to stick to music. The agent for the Aborn Opera Company was less kindly: "The voice may be okay," he said, "but lift your skirt, girlie, so I can see the legs." "Now, as I look back on it," says Grace Moore, "I've had quite a bit of leg trouble. Managers seemed never to consider the voice as a separate entity from what went on below." Her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Exuberant Grace | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...multi-fronts yet. The physical demands of global entertainment should have strained the 5-ft. 3½ in., no-lb. Langford frame, but they apparently have not. When the Hope troupe's plane was fogged out over Alaska, Frances said to her boss: "If we land okay, there's something I want to tell you." They landed okay (thanks to a dozen searchlights which punctured the fog and a blackout regulation), and she confided: "I was hoping we'd have to jump. I guess I'm crazy, but I've always wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Yeah, okay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Yeah | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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