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Word: okaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in business for years and they know what it's all about. We don't. We know our business, but our business is the labor game, not putting on concerts. We didn't figure on all the obstacles. If these orchestras played where they belong, okay, but this goddam transportation has been murdering us. If you go 100 miles out of town, it takes all day to get the band down and back and you have to give them two meals. You got to have a hall or a park. You got to worry about transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Lot of Headaches | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...scholarship"). "I don't know," he said . . . "whether this would have anything to do with it ... but when we moved the tables in the afternoon-I forgot to balance Peterson's table. . . ." Any billiard player who can make the shots Peterson did on a screwy table is okay for my money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Wozenski said: "Every time a shell lands on this hill, everybody calls up from the other hills to see if their buddies are okay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE HILLS OF NICOSIA | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...only answer to guys like Cunningham is the old favorite, "Okay, Mac, what's your story?" Personality, we've never seen any startlingly constructive ideas in all of Bill's arm-chair criticisms of the Field Administrator, and other war activities. From one who heard him speak publicly we understand that at the conclusion of his talk, less than 100 men remained from an audience of 1300, out of "respect" for a verbose and rather crude tongue...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

...Zemke: Okay, mighty fine. The crate is heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Conversation Piece | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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