The OED has now announced the word list they will be attempting to antedate for the next series of Balderdash and Piffle.

Bah!

I created a new topic in Potpourri about this half an hour ago; I suppose I should have checked first.

I've deleted my post since it contained more or less the same information.

Oops! I hadn't recalled this when I started a similar thread here. Here's a helpful link mentioned there.

... good antedates can be found simply from Googles News-Archive, selecting appropriate dates. ... (Don't worry if the cite you find is to a paid-subscription-only source. No doubt OED can get into that source.)

OED has go bananas (1968-70)*
Antedate to 1967:

The Lima News (Newspaper) - August 3, 1967, Lima, Ohio
Subscription - Lima News - NewspaperArchive - Aug 3, 1967
It's the newest, most exciting thing in the cosmetic world and you'll go bananas over the waterproof, postively smearproof, all-over body make-up.

Edit: a bit further, via newspaperarchive.com (paid service):

If I didn't take a couple of drinks on Sundays, when I'm cooped up alone in those small-town motels, I'd go bananas.
- Syracuse Post-Standard, 29 Nov. 1964, p. 74 col. 1

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OED has Bloody Mary (1956)*
Antedate to 1949:

Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - July 23, 1949, Reno, Nevada
Subscription - Reno Evening Gazette - NewspaperArchive - Jul 23, 1949
Enjoying considerable vogue right now is a nauseous blend of vodka and tomato juice, which is called a bloody Mary and purports to cure early morning ...

Edit: antedate as above, to 1946: It's a mixture of tomato juice, vodka and Tabasco sauce, aptly tagged a Bloody Mary cocktail. - Syracuse Herald Journal, 21 Apr. 1946, p.20 col.5

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OED has wolf whistle (1952)
Antedate to 1944:

The Nebraska State Journal (Newspaper) - July 4, 1944, Lincoln ...
Subscription - Nebraska State Journal - NewspaperArchive - Jul 4, 1944
... surprised at see- ing a woman at the front, chuckled and made guttural sounds as Eleanor passed-r-the oum equivalent of the Amer- ican "wolf whistle.
(Also in Nevada State Journal, same day)

EDIT: Taking it back a bit further:

The Fresno Bee, Feb. 6, 1944:
A group of Fulton Street "scientists" report that at last they have identified and isolated the female version of the wolf whisttle--that often heard call used by men of the armed forces when their trail crosses that of the opposite sex.

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OED has pole dance (October, 1992)
Antedate 3 months:

HOW DOES PENELOPE ANN MILLER SEE HERSELF? "INCREDIBLY FORTUNATE'
$2.95 - Fresno Bee - NewsBank - Aug 25, 1992
It's the starting point in a trip that transforms the mousy, repressed librarian into a small-time femme fatale, pole-dancing in honky-tonks and staring ...

OED has regime change (1990)
Antedate to 1987 (or possibly 1981):

State Dept. Acted to Block US-Egypt Attack on Libya; White House ...
Pay-Per-View - Washington Post - ProQuest Archiver - Feb 20, 1987
In mid-August last year, the president signed a National Security Decision Directive stating that he still sought a "regime change" in Libya, and directed ...

US-Iran, Israel, India and Pakistan
Daily Star - The Daily Star - Jun 7, 1981
... or his government, Iranians are very nationalistic, on the nuclear issue they are united and charged, the regime change option will not materialize. ...

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