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Word: aye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aye, for three snelly days the poor thiggin gaes stravagin' about Argyll wi' the King's men rairin' at his duff, all the whyles hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Blype o' Clishmaclaver | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...earlier retraced Columbus' path to the New World was off on another, more dangerous mission, applying his philosophy of writing history once more, a philosophy that told him to relive history in order to write it. He borrowed from Ovid to express his method: "Dream dreams, then write them. Aye! But live them...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: World War II: Faculty Plays Key Role | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...Aye atque Velásquez

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1959 | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...would be to force many who did not want to be for Nasser into choosing Arab nationalism over a too heavy dependence on the West. The better way for the West to put the question was: Who is for an independent and stable Lebanon? That way, those who answered aye would include many of the rebels who are in arms against the Chamoun regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Posing the Right Question | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Next day the Senate passed a $3.7 billion foreign aid authorization-only $229 million less than the President requested. Knowland, Bridges and Dirksen said aye, but it remained to be seen what they would do when the time came to vote on actual foreign aid appropriations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Retreat & Defeat | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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