Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vigorous. Community committees marched on police stations, bearing praise and gifts. The council granted the raise last January. The city decided to go for 100, not 91, new patrolmen, has already recruited 52. Last week the council voted to abolish the residency requirement, and this week is expected to okay a permanent commission. "True citizen cooperation, that Utopia when a citizen calls us when he sees a crime, has improved 100% in the last year," says Sergeant Berry. "The only sad thing," says new Chief Jacob Schott, 51, "is that you have to have something like a strangler...
Last month the majority-verdict rule passed its third reading before the House of Commons by a comfortable 180-to-102 vote. The bill then went to the House of Lords, which is expected to okay it in a few weeks...
...visual performance. He is General Eclectic himself, a master of a thousand takes. He's got a Jack Paar smile, a Jack Benny stare, a Stan Laurel fluster. If a joke dies, he waits a second, and then yawns a fine Ed Sullivan "Ho-o-okay. . ." A sudden thought-either his or a guest's-will launch him into an imitation of Jona than Winters imitating an old granny. He can spread his eyes wide open into a wow. Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when a guest goes off-color...
...Dean Ford will automatically pass the proposal on to the CEP. Besides the CEP, the Administrative Board must okay it before it goes to the Faculty for final approval...
...Producer-director Joel DeMott said it was about the failure of Christianity, but that she had deliberately played that down in her production because her actors didn't want to do a play about Christianity. Apparently the skinny guy in the blue silk shirt who blows trumpet is an okay guy, and everyone else represents the selfish elements of civilization. But I'm probably misquoting her, so I'll stop the plot analysis here...