Word: nay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thynggs are tuffe here, ywis. Thre times in this dretched yere hath this our Fayr Demesne been sore aforbled of the hungrie bande that Slounketh out of the Woode called Holly. Nay, the Table Round hath more mouthes in this twelvemonth fedd than ever it didde the whiles Kyng Arthur supped him there. First comith that pritty knight Sir Robert, the Taylor yclept, and feigneth to bee Launcelot, and then harde after hym ye yongge esquirt Robert a Wagner, yt callith himselfe Prince Valiant...
...Nay, more, nor kann this knight e'en parler ye Englysshe langue, bot muttereth mayhappe in Frensshe, as, 'Yagottalissena me. Englans gonnabeen vaded.' Aye, say'st'ou, but when ye Ladd doth feutre him into Patricia's chambre for love's sake, aye, what then? What then bot shende and shame to the Table Round! for hee doth take Discretioun for ye bettre part of Valoure...
...North Dakota's William Langer and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. When the manna-hunters' sniping subsided, the Senate passed and sent to conference with the House the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1954. The final Senate tally: 62-28. Voting "aye" were 44 Republicans, 18 Democrats. Voting "nay" were Wayne Morse, 24 Democrats and three Republicans. The three: Minnesota's Ed Thye, Bill Langer and Joe McCarthy...
...power to see that Joe gets his comeuppance, come Judgment Day. Last week came Judgment Day: up before the Senate was Joe's request for $214,000 to carry on the work of his permanent subcommittee on investigations during the next year. The vote: 85 "yea," only one "nay"-a voice raised by Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright after McCarthy had demanded a roll-call vote. Among the liberals who failed to hear the Trump: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Illinois' Paul Douglas, New York's Herbert Lehman, Oregon's Wayne Morse...
Although the meeting is scheduled for Sunday night, October 25, caucuses will meet tomorrow night to plan strategy of debate. The Governing Board also announced the group's now constitution had eliminated the fixed "liberal" and "conservative" caucuses of last year and substituted instead shifting "Yea" and "Nay" caucuses...