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Word: nay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voting record on the question was recalled in the Senate debate; on a wartime amendment to exempt servicemen from poll tax, Senator Truman voted "Nay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wide of the Mark | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...platform Sigler had grabbed a telephone and was talking to Vandenberg, getting the final word to jump. Other coalition bosses looked for California's Bill Knowland, who in all conscience should also be given the chance to say aye or nay. But Knowland could not be found. Then the chair announced the count, which formally closed the second ballot. It was too late to make any changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: How He Did It | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Lewis "somewhat regretfully" accepted the Bridges plan. Van Horn voted Nay. Bridges announced: "We have solved on a temporary basis the differences, subject to further review." Lewis wired his miners: "PENSIONS GRANTED," which was taken to be a signal to go back to work. Lewis still had Judge Goldsborough angrily hovering over him, but he hoped that the sunshine of temporary peace would dissipate that cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Why Shouldn't I? | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...House where just about anyone can feel at home, Winthrop has the most heterogeneous population of nay of the dwellings along the Charles. Here athletics, scientists, socialites, and promising novelists rub plastic trays in the subterranean dining halls, and if there is little united spirit, there is instead a rare atmosphere of live-and-let-live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan Life Casual . . . | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

Bush said that such a trend now exists in American business and added that "at every hand throughout the world, opportunities-nay necessities of the most urgent order-call for its ministration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Science Shackles: Oppenheimer | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

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