Word: aye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more, nor kann this knight e'en parler ye Englysshe langue, bot muttereth mayhappe in Frensshe, as, 'Yagottalissena me. Englans gonnabeen vaded.' Aye, say'st'ou, but when ye Ladd doth feutre him into Patricia's chambre for love's sake, aye, what then? What then bot shende and shame to the Table Round! for hee doth take Discretioun for ye bettre part of Valoure...
...small band of Republican irresponsibles, including North Dakota's William Langer and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. When the manna-hunters' sniping subsided, the Senate passed and sent to conference with the House the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1954. The final Senate tally: 62-28. Voting "aye" were 44 Republicans, 18 Democrats. Voting "nay" were Wayne Morse, 24 Democrats and three Republicans. The three: Minnesota's Ed Thye, Bill Langer and Joe McCarthy...
...aptitudes for their work. It is with chagrin that I confess a growing conviction that Senator McCarthy-a damned-Yankee, and a Roman Catholic one at that-just about has it made as the Exalted Kleagle and Imperial Wizard of all the Demagogues. The shades of Heflin and Bilbo-aye, even that of the superb Huey Long, must stand in their limbos with reverent awe at the spectacle of the meretricious antics of McCarthy...
...straggled Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone to register a ringing aye. Then came Joe McCarthy (who is usually late for roll calls) and Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. Both were for the amendment. The count: 60 to 28−still more than enough for passage. But two other latecomers, Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James Duff and Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, arrived just in time to vote against the measure. That made it 60-30−precisely two-thirds. Vice President Richard Nixon, presiding, took a long slow look around the chamber...
...fireworks. Every one of the 64 resolutions presented to the delegates passed with little or no opposition. Bathed in floodlights while cameras reeled up movies for TV, Reuther ticked off resolutions as though he were counting nickels: "Is there discussion? No discussion. All in favor say aye. Motion carried unanimously...