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...secondary, moving and juking. When you're facing a linebacker you just wiggle your body, watch him go off in one direction and you take off in the other." If all the speed and twisting can be boiled down to one move, it is the "okey-doke." In the jive patter that Simpson sometimes favors, that is the split-second change of direction that makes him unique. "My game is to juke the tough guys," he says. "I put the okeydoke on them, just bounce around and look for daylight. No one is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Year of the Okey-Doke | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...financed. When the center was proposed a decade ago, university spokesmen told the legislature they did not want it unless both building and operating costs could be separately financed and guaranteed. It must not, they insisted, be dependent on the legislature's appropriation whims. Then-Governor Okey L. Patteson pushed through a penny-a-bottle "pop tax." Every man, woman and child in the state who has gulped down a soft drink since July 1951 has put up 1? for the center. The tax has yielded $25 million of the $30 million that the center has cost thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Pop Hospital | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...demitasse in the mornin' . . . He said I didn't have no sign of kodiak trouble around the heart or no coroner's trombone disease where the blood gets shut off in the artillery ... I think they call it the I Oughta . . . Everythin' was okey dokel . . . wit' my gold bladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What a Built! | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...bill is not mandatory; the individual cities man refuse to okey it, Cambridge, however, wanted to introduce free all-night parking last fall and was prevented from doing so only because of the existing state law forbidding it. This law will now be rescinded by the new bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-Night Street Parking Approved At State Level, Up to Council Soon | 5/8/1951 | See Source »

...year and a half ago public-spirited Physician Capito put a proposition to Conductor-Composer Antonio Modarelli of the 85-piece Charleston Symphony Orchestra: Capito would pay $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. Modarelli agreed. Last week, along with West Virginia Governor Okey Patteson and the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history (2,500), Capito heard the result: a six-section program piece entitled River Saga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Made to Order | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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