Word: ok
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First came trial rockets-rumors that Air Force Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, 40, voice of the astronauts, was no longer A-OK with his NASA bosses. For months Shorty bantily crowed at the notion. Two weeks ago, the crow got lower. "I am sure my role is going to change," he admitted after a meeting with NASA Administrator James Webb. Last week it was official; Shorty was the cargo on a one-man, one-way man shoot out of Canaveral. Next on the pad: Paul Haney, 35, a NASA publicity man since shortly after the agency's founding...
...remember with nostalgia the day when experimental rockets were manned by monkeys. Monkeys didn't allow their offspring and spouses to appear on the covers of Life and Look. They didn't invent absurd words and phrases like "A-OK," "All systems go," or "bazoo." They didn't move Congress. They just went up and came down. That's the way it ought...
...need no wonder, for that matter, why scientists are an unusually small percentage of the dark-skinned segment of our population. We need not wonder if there is injustice done to groups in America as long as our personal friendships are A-OK. But the fact remains that so-called Negroes are damaged en masse by the imposition of what I agree with Mr. Gillman is an artificial barrier, as, indeed, are the so-called whites, though their scars are less likely to show up in the simple test between "scientist" or "drunkard." This barrier, however, is not only...
...earn it myself." "Which he did," said Ike. After lunch, the old soldier joined Kelly and his West Point glee clubmates in On, Brave Old Army Team, sang so well that one cadet marveled, "He was right on pitch," causing the New York Daily News to headline, OK, MITCH, MOVE OVER...
Theme for the halftime show was a salute to sports heroes. For Floyd Paterson the band spelled out "OK" which rapidly changed to "KO." Then they congratulated that "great New York baseball team," the Mets, whose name was transformed into "MESS" as the announcer explained that they had revolutionized baseball...