Word: nay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: . . Can TIME truthfully say it represents the opinion of all its readers with true impartiality as nearly as does John Rankin when he rises to make Congressional halls ring with old-fashioned Southern oratory, advocating States Rights, the poll tax, white supremacy and regard for Southern-nay, all -womanhood...
...Regardless of the enemy design," said the voice from Tokyo, "the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness-nay, furiousness." Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Air Force got its biggest weekly bag of the war: 27,000 tons of Jap shipping definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as U.S. and Australian flyers sank...
...Everyone has really been very helpful," volunteered Ensign Schwerin. "Yes, especially across the dinner table," one of the more loquacious of the quartet retorted. "Is that all you can say for Radar-men?" I asked "What men?" came back the quick reply from a source which preferred--nay, insisted--upon remaining anonymous...
...have the sensation of a submarine which has just had a depth charge dropped off its port bow. "Indignant, nay Apoplectic '45" (see "The Mail" in last Tuesday's issue) has exposed me as being in the pay of the Yale News. (I wonder who read the SERVICE NEWS to my little correspondent, anyway...
...John Harvard will be John Harvard when Eli's busted up." Signed. Indignant, nay, Apoplectic...