Word: aye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed, after adding a one-year limit, a Senate bill freezing farm-price supports at 1957's high levels. Breaking G.O.P. ranks, 44 farm-state Republicans voted aye. Okaying the one-year provision, the Senate sent the bill to the White House, where it faces a probable veto...
During the last session of Congress, the two Oregonians Morsebergered such routine Northwest Democratic proposals as the federal high dam in Hells Canyon (aye) and such routine liberal stands as Scott McLeod's appointment as Ambassador to Ireland (nay). But on larger issues they were almost totally at issue. Neuberger favored the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Administration's budget requests, the civil rights bill. Fiery Wayne Morse opposed them all, testily told the folks back home that "Dick Neuberger was one of the Democratic liberals sucked in on the civil rights bill." Through the entire session, Neuberger more often...
...these, says Author Wallace lovingly, were square pegs in round holes: "They said nay when others said aye." If we refuse to "dissent and disagree" as they did, "man will have lost his last battle and his last chance." This is a deeply moving suggestion, even though many will probably prefer to lose the battle and retain their sanity...
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...Lacking prior consultation, Canada went to the U.N. and voted independently. "If a resolution is right, we vote for it," Pearson said. "It is bad to be a chore boy for the United States. It is equally bad to be a colonial chore boy, running around shouting 'Ready, aye, ready...