Word: aye
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...vote against considering the tax bill, the Speaker's slipping leadership grip was evident: he found 65 Democrats voting against him. An even bigger factor in the loss was the partisanship of the Republican opposition. Fully 149 G.O.P. Representatives voted nay, only 13 aye. O'Neill's barbed protest was apt: "The next time I see Republican crocodile tears about the deficits, I will ask them where their party was today...
When House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin asked for a vote, all but one of his Democrats and even four committee Republicans said aye to this year's resolution to cap U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals at current levels. Last week's 27-to-9 vote endorsed a "mutual, verifiable freeze on testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons. Passage this week by the full House seems likely...
...when the Senate last week cast a suspenseful roll-call vote on the amendment, Byrd, Tower and Durenberger all voted for it. They were far from alone in saying aye to a measure they privately opposed. "If we were voting in a dark room," declared Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, one of only seven Republicans to go against the measure, "it might get six votes." But in the spotlight last week the amendment got 69, two more than the required two-thirds majority. Twenty-two of the Senate's 46 Democrats joined 47 Republicans, cheered...
...BIGGEST PROBLEM for an American audience is losing part of the impact of this almost entirely visual film in order to read dialogue like "Contact bearing 22.37 degree--sinking fast!" "Full speed ahead at 30' 2" !" and "Aye, aye, captain!" Watching the movie is like reading a super-action-heroes comic book. Moreover, sailor's slang, no matter how well translated, is meant to be heard and not read: "Screw till it falls off, you swine!" For once it seems a film might be better dubbed than subtitled, expect that the sound of the German language is an essential part...
Paul eventually nods; then says faintly: "Aye. Revenge." As if to make his case forever, Joseph thrusts his face toward the American stranger. "You. You'd take revenge too, wouldn't you, Mister...