Word: aye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what to do about his Communist regime. Last week the OAS was asked to approve a series of moves designed to minimize Castro's infiltration and subversion around the hemisphere. Among the recommendations was a formal ban on all travel to and from Cuba. Only 14 nations voted aye. Brazil, Mexico, Haiti and Venezuela abstained. Chile was firmly against...
...combine-long ago made their fabulous mark. Another of the world's great areas, in the eyes of geopoliticians, is just beginning to touch its potential. It sprawls, bigger than France, in Brazil's temperate heartland (see map). It is called Minas Gerais (pronounced mee-nesh jer-aye-eesh). However exotic the words sound in Portuguese, they simply mean General Mines-a most pedestrian description of a land of beauty and wealth...
...Aye! Tear her time-worn turrets down...
Claggart: Aye, the nights are long...
...Latin Americans rose to speak and vote, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk looked squarely at each ambassador. Said Guatemala's Carlos Urrutia Aparicio: "This is no hour for limp diapers and half-measures-we move now for history." One by one, 19 nations voted "aye" to the resolution. Only little Uruguay, lacking instructions from home, abstained. And when the word came from Montevideo, Uruguay made it unanimous...