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bezalel
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The word is “copacetic” and it derives from the Hebrew expression “hakol b’seder,” the response of an Israeli fighter (so I heard) to an American query to him as to how the situation was going.

The origin of copacetic may be hakol b’seder but I don’t think Israel had fighters during World War I.