Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around Argentina's big marble Palacio del Congreso, Perón lined up 700 cops, then told the deputies inside to okay the Act of Chapultepec and the United Nations Charter. Grudgingly, the nationalist majority obeyed...
...Tokyo Bay. Hero Boyington (26 confirmed planes) had just heard that he had won the Congressional Medal of Honor. He had also eaten his first American food in 20 months-eight eggs, two orders of ham, two helpings of mashed potatoes. He patted his stomach, said, "This is okay. I like...
...Jones's boys, cocky little Bobby Riggs, insisted on taking money beyond expenses for amateur tennis-the unforgivable sin in Jones's eyes. "If you persist in this sort of thing, you're on your own," warned Jones. "Okay," said Bobby, "I'm on my own." He became national pro champion...
...news was variously received. Some cried woe and others hallelujah. Those who cried woe saw abysmal inflation ahead, chaos, the ruination of the nation's economy. Those who cried hallelujah said, in effect: okay, this is going to be all right; we're just going to do things the way we always did them in peacetime...
Last week U.S. foreign traders got a lift when Washington (on U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith's okay) freed $700 million of Argentine gold that had been stored (on suspicion that it was Nazi) in Federal Reserve vaults. They thought that action forecast better relations with Juan Domingo...