Word: okay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wakefield could no longer be distinguished within her shroud of smoke and steam. But messages beep-beeping from the sparks' cabins aboard the cruiser and the destroyers told the story. "The engines are still okay. Fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain (Coast Guard Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury) thinks it will burn out the superstructure...
...many soldiers have fewer comforts, less to do on Saturday night, less discipline from above than these bearded, weather-tanned engineers. There is little saluting. A worker accepts a captain's order with an "Okay, Ham." More than 40% of the engineer workers are Negro. As men on a battlefront, these engineers are challenged to fight it through or lose. Against the mountains they work too hard to be restless. There is little talk of women. "But," laughed a colonel, "I'm sorry for the first town they hit when they get away from here...
Morale is quite good-always seems to improve in proportion to the nearness of actual danger. U.S. soldiers stand up very well under almost constant bombings. It would be useless to pretend all are heroes. But after a few days most of them turn up okay. They take particular pride in one anti-aircraft unit. Last week it shot down five bombers. An American colonel commanding the Moresby anti-aircraft unit was so pleased he gave five pounds donation towards beer for the anti-aircraftsmen-when & if beer arrives...
...America's most prominent business figures, he did not even try to argue it past his researcher on his own say-so. He got the man at the other end of a three-telephone hook-up-read the statement to him-let his doubting Thomasina hear the okay with her own ears...
Poker. In San Francisco, Mrs. Claire Curtin won an annulment after describing her married life. She said that in 1939 her husband had taken time out from a session of poker to marry her, then announced: "Okay, kid, I'm going back to the card game." She concluded: "I haven't seen him since...