Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe you've already paid for HSA linens, a yearbook and a freshman register, your Class ring and the orchestra's concert series. But if you haven't, be forewarned: Just because it's Harvard doesn't mean it's good. The linen service is okay if you are the type who sends laundry home--but remember that you have to pick up your linens at a particular time or place each week or else you're out of luck. If you're doing your own laundry, why not just do linens, too, and save the money...
...House following Ford's address to Congress. They wanted a text of the speech. "We are going to test the Administration's new openness," the Chicago Daily News's Peter Lisagor told the guard. "Can we drive in?" The police officer checked, was told it was okay. They drove up West Executive Avenue, sometimes called Limousine Alley, finding a parking space in slots reserved for the Vice President. They got the text, went off into the night as easily as they had come...
...Sunday. Renoir's The Rules of the Game, one of the best social-political movies ever made, is showing tonight, followed on Saturday by The Grand Illusion, Renoir's anti-war film about the 1914 world conflict. Welles's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificient Ambersons is okay, but doesn't really belong with these classics. Monday night's Marx Brothers comedy, Room Service, is hardly one of their funniest and you should probably see Annimal Crackers in Boston instead. The 39 Steps, also playing Monday, is one of the best mysteries that Hitchcock (or anyone) ever made...
...Newspapers have the notion that anything the government releases is okay to print," Countryman, who is organizing a letter of protest to The Times, says. "At least newspapers shouldn't print any tripe without checking its accuracy...
...screamed one particularly obnoxious truck driver stopped in the traffic. But the patrolwoman must have been used to this sort of treatment, because as the truck driver went past she neatly sidestepped his searching hand. The other patrolman laughed and, as the patrolwoman turned her back, he flashed an okay sign to the truckdriver...