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Word: nay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Windward Islands (pop. 321,600) produce bay rum on St. Lucia, nutmeg on Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da), arrowroot for babies' cookies on St. Vincent, and cocoa on Dominica (pronounced Dom-i-nee-ka,). St. Lucia houses a U.S. missile-tracking station for Cape Canaveral's downrange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: First Election | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...Best Pal." Leopold seems to have an oddly clumsy, cloying sentimentality; in a gushing letter to Clarence Darrow, he wrote about the lawyer's courage in taking the case: "Nay, it is more than bravery. It is heroism." From prison he wrote a poem to his aunt ("Birdie, angel bright and fair. So sweet of face and white of hair"), and when he tells of Loeb's murder by a fellow convict, Leopold writes solemnly: "Strange as it may sound, he had been my best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Condemned to Life | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

Housing. With nary a nay, the Senate okayed a pump-priming Democratic bill authorizing an additional $1.8 billion in federal housing loans, as reports showed private housing starts had fallen from 64,200 in January to 60,000 in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Into Combat | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Your Oct. 21 picture of Chou En-lai and those 15 visiting U.S. students clapping hands together-obviously impervious to the blood of thousands, nay millions, on those hands-sickened me to disgust. God save us from such Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Last week the Mellon arm was still there, all three Pittsburgh newspapers had endorsed his reelection, the machine was rolling, and Dave Lawrence was on the way to a fourth term. There were few who would say him nay, despite such displays of untidy municipal housekeeping as potholes in the streets and frequent scandal in the police department. For King David, on behalf of bosses everywhere, had tested a new proverb and proved its wisdom: in time of prosperity one towering skyscraper is the equivalent of 7,000 city jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: The Mighty Boss | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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