Word: aye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approval, both parties agreed that 75% of each church's total vote must be in favor. The Methodists voted in favor of union by 77%, but the Anglicans could only muster 69% to vote aye-effectively saying...
Recently the Civil Aeronautics Board, with its three Democrats voting aye and its two Republicans nay, recommended that Continental get routes from the East Coast through the Southwest to Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand. Last week Nixon again vetoed the award to Continental. He strongly suggested that the South Pacific route will go instead to financially troubled Eastern Air Lines, in which Laurance Rockefeller holds a substantial interest...
...create sympathy. From the opening it is clear Miss Brodie is a petty self-deceiver and the fabric of her life is threadbare and shabby. The rest of the film is only variations on a seam. "A guid beginnin' makes a guid endin'," her class is informed. Aye; if only the revairrse did not hoold as well...
...Born. To Aye Aye Myint U, 28, daughter of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, and Tyn Myint U, 31, Manhattan College assistant prof; a daughter, their second child; in Manhattan...
...regulations strike deep at arcane devices dear to the Senate parliamentarians. Many members often feign forgetfulness about whether they voted aye or nay and interrupt roll calls to ask whether their vote has been recorded and how they voted. This is a time-spinning maneuver, enabling habitual latecomers-notably including New York's Bobby Kennedy and Illinois' Charles Percy-to vote. Henceforth, this maneuver is out. Instead, Senate clerks will make a "slow call" of the roll, which, its proponents insist, will give laggards at least 15 minutes to reach the chamber...