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Word: okaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a visitor told him Alicea didn't look anywhere near 26, Silver-man smiled and said, "Okay, maybe he's 25, Rough game, you know...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Smith Tops Alicea in Harvard Club Tilt | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

Only with prodding from the office of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 was the State Department's silence on the issue broken and the clearance allowed. Even after the belated okay, the Immigration Services stalled for a few more hours before issuing its telegram approving Quilapayun's entrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quilapayun and Government Red Scare Tactics | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

...fourth floor. Among them were Kochava Levi, 30, a petite, black-haired prostitute who had ducked into the Savoy earlier to avoid a police roundup, and Avrahim Azikri, 28, an interior decorator and a guest in the hotel. "They told us if we behaved, everything would be okay," Azikri recalled later. "But when I heard the Israeli troops starting their attack, I thought it was every man for himself. The Arabs had put dynamite next to the wall, and I knew they meant to explode it. So I ran into a bathroom and crouched between two walls. When the dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Raid: 'A Score to Settle' | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...There are too many of them. "We always got along okay with just a few people draining off our dollars in Mass Hall before; why have we suddenly become General Motors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Goal: 'Move the Administration Closer to the Faculty' | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...people chatting or walking in the summer evening. In Shanghai there had been the early morning crowd of exercisers, and at night people playing cards or talking in the middle of the street, and the couples standing on the Bund watching the river, and sometimes boys shouting "Hello" or "Okay" because that was all the English they knew. In the countryside there had been the chickens and the children. But in Canton, for the first time, I got lost...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Culture and Anarchy in China | 12/11/1974 | See Source »

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