Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extending the excess profits tax (Time, June 1) seemed dimmer. As congressional hearings started, only two of the 15 Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee, which must report out a bill, favored President Eisenhower's proposed six-month extension. Three of the GOPsters were willing to okay a compromise extension, probably three months; the rest were flatly opposed. Democrats would give no assurance they would "bail...
William Saroyan's starting place is well known. It was clearly expressed in a short story he wrote sometime before 1940: "Okay, baby, this is the world," he wrote, "It's lousy, but it's the only thing there is, so you might just as well take it easy and enjoy...
...trouble with you people," said the March Hare, "is that you never expect to understand the Advocate, so you never try." Alice looked annoyed. "Don't be silly," she said, "I always give it a sporting chance. But take that story 'Cleveland, Ohio, for instance." The March Hare interrupted, "Okay, I'll admit that parts of it were sort of childishly written, and that the flashback was confusing, but . . ." "But nothing," Alice said, "I didn't understand the ending...
...major Annex objection to the admission of freshmen to the study room during the day was voiced by Janet Brown '56, "It's okay at night, but during the day that's the only place the girls can gather privately around the Yard...
...looking husking hook to his right wrist. At last the speech was over, and Elmer strode into the cornfield. He seized an ear or two, ripped the husks open with his hook and tossed them into the wagon. One of the Frenchmen spat. Then Elmer took off his shirt. "Okay, Thorson," he called to his companion, a onetime Iowa farmboy now clerking at the U.S. Embassy in Paris...