Word: nay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain of this unit, our commander has made us feel that nay of us would come to him at any time on any problem in our lives, military or otherwise," Sergt. Seigle said. "He is a leader we all respect...
...cheered until the room was ringing with applause. It was a memorable moment for every man present, and seldom before had nay of the soldiers realized so keenly what good army spirit meant...
...July 7. "Call in the Members," intoned Speaker James W. Glen. Division bells clanged through the marble-floored corridors of Canada's House of Parliament. Each M.P., conscious of an historic occasion concluding one of the bitterest debates in Canadian history, rose to record himself yea or nay. The Government was sustained...
...Navy that is mainly air force with seagoing auxiliaries -will have the major say in world affairs. Then the U.S. will no longer be the nation of the county fair and the little red schoolhouse. It will be the nation that has the power by yea or nay to open the seas and widen economic frontiers to all peaceful peoples, to close them as readily to aggressors...
...roll call began; 45 minutes of grinding suspense as the clerk growled out the 432 names, listened for an answer, repeated the vote. The jammed galleries seemed hung over the rails. The little tally meter of Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen registered 204 aye votes, 201 nay votes. (Twenty-seven were not voting.) Hubbub boiled about the rostrum...