Word: ayes
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King Richard: Aye, no-no, aye, for I must nothing be,/ Therefore no no, for [if] I resign to thee/ ... What more remains...
Last week's first witness was L. Patrick Gray III, the former acting director of the FBI, who appeared a pathetic figure as he described how, in 26 years of service in the U.S. Navy, he had been taught to say "Aye, aye, sir." Gray was asked about his earlier account of a telephone call to Nixon on July 6, 1972, in which he had warned that certain White House aides were trying to "mortally wound" the President by interfering with the FBI and the CIA (TIME Aug. 13). To this astonishing assertion, Nixon merely replied: "Pat, you just...
...Though American doctors are still debating the risks, virtues and mysteries of acupuncture, two major U.S. insurance companies have already decided that for their purposes the ancient Chinese medical art is a legitimate procedure. Chicago-based Continental Assurance and Continental Casualty companies have given their aye to the needle by announcing that they will pay for acupuncture when it is administered by a licensed physician in accordance with law. Needle treatment by unlicensed practitioners-the kind given in some Chinatown dispensaries-would not be covered. The insurance companies have no idea what their decision will cost them in claims...
...served a pair of spurs in a covered dish by his wife-a hint that the larder was bare and that he had better go rustle a few cows. (Auld Wat is also credited with a memorable remark to a haystack, which he noticed while returning from a raid: "Aye, if ye had four legs ye wouldna stand there lang...
Acheson had his misgivings about Roosevelt. "It didn't flatter me," he later remarked, "to have the squire of Hyde Park come by and speak to me familiarly, as though I were a stable boy and I was supposed to pull my lock and say, 'Aye, aye, sir.' " That was no way for one squire to treat another. But in 1941 Acheson was invited to return to the Government-this time to the State Department. He remained for six years, then left to resume his law practice until he was appointed Secretary by Truman...