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Word: aye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AMERICAN FARMER WILL TELL YOU THAT THE MOST INCREDIBLE ACCOMPLISHMENT IN MODERN TIMES WAS THE HERDING OF 1,323 SHEEP INTO A COW PALACE AND MAKING THEM SAY AYE IN UNISON, WITH NOT A SINGLE PROTESTING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...convention in Kansas City. The U.A.W. argued that it is their fight too, gave delegates anti-Kohler Kits containing union propaganda, campaign buttons (Don't Buy Kohler), and lists of merchants and contractors who do buy Kohler. The biggest meeting of U.S. plumbers in history cheered a unanimous "aye" to a resolution urging federal agencies to "refrain from granting contracts to Kohler, or purchase of its products." Washington of course will ignore the plea, continue to buy from the lowest bidder. But the U.A.W. won the sympathy of the men who install plumbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Boycott | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...most greens. He never showed a blink of emotion. After he had lost four holes in a row, he came back later to sink a two-foot putt and win. Then he relaxed for an instant. He grabbed his cap and waved his putter aloft in his other hand. "Aye!" he shouted with relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youngest Yet | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...Chair Votes Aye." On the second key vote, to fix the support level on wheat, pressures from the stubbles cut hard into the Administration's ranks. Six farm belt Republicans (Colorado's Allott, Kansas' Carlson and Schoeppel, Nebraska's Curtis and Hruska, Wisconsin's Wiley) who had voted for flexible supports on the other basic crops, ran for cover and plumped for rigid props under wheat. Five Senators (Democrats Byrd of Virginia, Neely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The First Harvest | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...feet contending that the Vice President could not vote because the motion to reconsider had already been tabled. Said Nixon: "If the Senator will read the Constitution he will find that the Vice President has the right to vote when a tie occurs. The chair votes aye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The First Harvest | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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