Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president, stressed that "999 out of 1000 tests are okay," and said the recent failure of the Central Kitchen to pass a number of tests was "very unusual...
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...followed Mr. Whiteside into a small room almost entirely filled with a machine whose top surface was made up of rows of heavy wooden rollers. Our host then pushed a control which started these rollers spinning madly. "Okay, Joe," he shouted to an unseen attendant, "let'er roll!" With that, hundreds of apples came cascading down onto the whirling rollers from an opening in the wall. As they hit the machine they were bounced violently up and down and eventually were tossed into a receptacle at one end of the apparatus, much battered and bruised. Mr. Whiteside stopped the motor...
...fighting to alter a decision I consider wrong in every way," he thundered before an emergency session of his Federal Parliament in Salisbury. In London, beleaguered R. A. Butler, Deputy Prime Minister who is in charge of Central African affairs, wearily insisted that it was "our duty" to okay Nyasaland's secession. To soothe a strong bloc of pro-Welensky Tories, he said that he would visit Central Africa early next year to look into the chances of preserving a union between the two Rhodesias...
...Dreamy Pines Motor Court, where two hoods called Sluggsy and Horror find Vivienne all alone in her black velvet toreador pants ("with the rather indecent gold zip down the seat"). They behave tastelessly ("Okay, Horror. Let her go. This is for me"). Enter, at long last, the man with the white scar on his left cheek. "I quickly put my hand up to hide my nakedness. Then he smiled and suddenly I thought I might be all right...