Word: aye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aye," voted Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken...
...Aye," said Colorado Republican Gordon Allott...
...brain operations and has not appeared in the Senate since April. For this occasion, Engle, smiling gallantly, had been wheeled into the chamber. When the clerk called his name, Engle tried to speak, but could not. Finally he lifted his left arm, pointed at his head, and nodded his aye...
...went the vote. When it reached Delaware Republican John Williams, it stood at 66 for cloture, 20 against. Williams' soft aye made the two-thirds majority required for cloture, and victory. "That's it," cried a Senator. Newsmen sprinted to telephones that had been held open. Mike Mansfield sagged in relief. Dick Russell, grim as death, scribbled fitfully on a yellow pad. Out of the cloakroom hobbled Arizona's Carl Hay den, 86, president pro tempore of the Senate and the man who stands next only to House Speaker John McCormack in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency...
After sounding our hearty aye to the President's suggestion, we advance below some possible source of contention, in hope of quick resolutions that will nip incipient opposition...