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Word: oxy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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Usage:

...hopeless as that, though many Greeks felt the way the captain did. The Greek Army, on its part, was learning the phrase which Major Ehrgott and the other Americans liked to use: "Oxi avrio-tora!" (Not tomorrow-now!). The Americans were learning, well before the spring thaws opened up the whole north Greece guerrilla country, that the military solution to the Andartes would involve more than night patrols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Oxi Avrio-Tora! | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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