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...only back-door spending had been put to vote, it is likely that the House would have defeated it. But to most Congressmen last week, the need for relief to depressed areas outweighed the financing problems. With 31 Republicans-all from districts where unemployment is running high-voting aye, the House passed the bill by a 223 to 193 vote and sent it to President Kennedy for signing...
Macmillan noted that the issue will al most certainly come to a U.N. vote this year-and when it does, Britain will cast an aye ballot...
When lads have done with labor in Shropshire, one will cry, "Let's go and kill a neighbor," and t'other answers "Aye...
...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...
...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...