Word: nay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the committee got around to voting on whether to okay Nominee Luce, the tally was 16 to 1 in favor. Wayne Morse's was the only nay...
...film, lies in an ability to say every line as a double entendre-meanings that are not smutty because the listener thinks of both of them simultaneously. Her presence is like the telling of a dirty joke whose punch line everyone knows, and thus she is a clean, nay immaculate, dirty joke...
...Passed an anti-B-girl measure barring employment of females for "soliciting, enticing, or encouraging the purchase of alcoholic beverages." Lone "nay" voter: the house's oldest member, Fairbanks' Robert E. Sheldon, 76. Orated he: "Fourscore and seven years ago, when Alaska and I were young, Alaska was filled with dance-hall girls who operated on a commission basis, and some of them developed into our leading matrons...
...provisions that seemed to invade U.S. sovereignty. But ailing President Wilson stubbornly urged Senate Democrats to insist on all or nothing. On the showdown roll call, Lodge and most of his fellow Republicans voted for ratification of the Covenant (with 14 Lodge Reservations); 13 Republicans and 42 Democrats voted nay. As Grandson Lodge later pointed out, the U.N. Charter that the U.S. Senate ratified almost unanimously in 1945 included sovereignty safeguards similar to those his grandfather urged back in 1920, e.g., the Charter provision prohibiting the U.N. from intervening in matters "essentially within the domestic jurisdiction" of any member...
...bill to extend for another year, at present rates, the corporation and excise taxes scheduled to shrink on July 1. But that was all the tax trimming the Senate did. It voted down a flurry of tax-cut proposals, passed the Smathers-nicked Administration bill with nary an audible nay. Ahead this week: a House-Senate conference to decide whether the House, which approved a hold-the-line bill with no exceptions, will stand still for the Smathers amendments...