Word: aye
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...apologize for that. In this atmosphere the U.N. Security Council, called into special session in Manhattan after an appeal from the UN truce chief. Major General Edson L.M. Burns of Canada, found itself in rare-unanimity. By vote of 11 to 0 (the U.S. and Russia both voting aye), the council called on Israel and Egypt to work out something with General Burns "forthwith," and endorsed his idea of creating a border neutral zone and raising a barbed wire barricade along the Gaza line to keep the troops apart...
Rear Admiral Boone rejoined by saying he would lift the ban with a "cheerful naval aye, aye" if directed by a higher authority. But no such authority exerted itself, and the ban remained. West Point informed the public that it would allow no debate on "a controversial subject on which . . . national policy has already been established." It then went ahead to argue the advisability of agricultural subsidies, which the government has approved for over a hundred years. And the Naval Academy maintained that anyone arguing for recognition of Peking was upholding "the Communist Philosophy and party line" at the same...
...make it a better country in peace." To Morison, history was pre-eminently "a story that moves . . . that sings to the heart while it informs the understanding." In the front of one of his books stands a quotation that he might have written himself: "Dream dreams, then write them -aye, but live them first...
...vote on final passage of the parity bill, Republican Leader Joe Martin demanded a roll call. The vote was close; at one point it appeared that the bill had been defeated. After the roll call, there was a long delay, while Democrats switched their votes, some from nay to aye, some from nay to present. Martin, annoyed at the procedure, demanded: "W'hat's the stalling for?" Speaker Rayburn gently replied that there had been no unnecessary delay. Then he carefully studied the Democratic side to make certain he had no more converts there. The results were announced...
Russian Delegate Arkady Sobolev warned that Russia's vote was only intended to "record its approval of the idea" of international atomic cooperation and that the program had "serious shortcomings" which must be the subject of "further negotiations." But he voted aye. "An historic moment," said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...