Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready labelled untrue a statement attributed to him in yesterday's Boston Traveler which said, ". . . I suspect the whole thing is a Harvard CRIMSON stunt." The Chief claimed, "I never said that. These newspapers have me saying things like that all the time. For my money, the CRIMSON's okay...
...Wage Stabilization Board seemed in no hurry last week to okay Lewis' new contract boosts. The problem was that the new wages would put miners' salaries over the maximum increase allowed under WSB regulations. But thousands of miners, irked at the delay, started to walk...
...quote you used bothers me ... If I said that "the image (of a pretty girl) should pull the heartstrings on the cover of a religious story just as much as she does on a magazine cover," then I must have had in mind several provisos. The quotation is okay if we understand that by "a pretty girl" I mean a wholesome, well-clad gal. Sex and lust can never be successful baits for a soul's eternal salvation, and we certainly do not ever intend to use them...
...first well in Oklahoma's Key West Field, Glasco has been tramping through Washington offices for years asking for permission to build the line. Last March he took his problem to Arizona's Senator Ernest W. McFarland, who persuaded the Petroleum Administration for Defense to okay the line. To benefit Arizona, Glasco agreed to tap his line with a $17 million refinery in Florence, Ariz, capable of processing 15,000 bbls. of crude a day. Glasco hopes to slash petroleum costs in Arizona drastically; they are now among the highest in the U.S., since every drop must...
Architect-Designer Paul László, 52, is a comfort-loving Hungarian expatriate who arrived in the U.S. 16 years ago with $200 in his pocket and a one-word vocabulary: okay. Since then he has enormously expanded both. By catering to the comfort of his rich clients, he has built up a $1,5OO,000-a-year business as designer of some of the nation's most luxurious showplaces. And in his fancy Beverly Hills showroom last week, he was volubly admiring the first samples of his latest commission: $1,000,000 worth of modern furniture...