Word: nay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain had made skeptical sounds about low U.S. golf scores (like Byron Nelson's phenomenal 68.3 average last year). The scores were phony, said this Briton, because they were made on easy courses, with the ball teed up on the fairway. No U.S. golfer could say him nay,*but somebody in Britain had to pay for saying...
...William O. Douglas read another majority opinion. This was the case: Should a man who refused to bear arms for the U.S., but who was willing to do noncombatant military service, be admitted to U.S. citizenship? Five Justices had ruled Yes. The Chief Justice and two others had voted Nay...
...know where you are hiding at present. This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. If you are gone for good, Rogue, it is very solemn, and if you are coming back, it is hardly less so. Nay, in the suspense and mystery of the latter question, involving that of where you may be now, there is a solemnity even added to that of death, making us who are in attendance alike afraid to look on you and to look off you, and making those below start...
...they did not like ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, hastily switched their votes. Pennsylvania's New Dealing Joe Guffey wanted to do likewise, but Committee Chairman Tom Connally drawled: "If I let you change your vote, are you agoin' to stay hitched?" Infuriated, Joe Guffey let his "nay" stand...
Concluded the Century: "The nation . . . at this juncture desperately needs a president whose yea is yea and whose nay is nay...