Word: nay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy gained three first places--including the 400-yard freestyle relay--and a rash of seconds. Middie Gerry Nay scored a surprise victory in the 200-yard breast-stroke, shearing almost one second off a Naval Academy record. His time was 2:27.4. Ralph Zani and Ken Emerson placed second and third...
...told the large audience just what he was trying to say in his music. After a slow introduction, the main theme is stated, allegro. Then there are ten variations, punctuated by three codas. Although there are some striking contrasts in rhythm and mood, the piece seems to lack nay principle of unity...
...nay if I suggest that B. M. Baruch, elder statesman, has come to be B.M.B., elder bootlegger? I have known Mister Bernie for quite a spell . . . he is still a veritable devil with the girls, and . . . completely without probity when he describes his ability at shooting quail, and I know for sure he cheats at Canasta . . . Mr. Baruch's favorite statement, which he started using on President Wilson and has not abandoned since, is: 'What are the facts?' I hang him with his own slogan. 'What are the facts, Mr. Baruch? How did the booze...
...more than 3,000 heard Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam attack the appointment of an ambassador as "unwise, unnecessary and un-American," then voted by acclamation to "oppose the confirmation of this nomination ... in every legitimate way open to us in our democratic system." There was one loud "Nay!" The "Nay" man said he was a good Roman Catholic...
...polls. In London, tired housewives queued patiently to do their daily shopping before going to vote. Near Manchester, where autumnal hills and fields, gowned in the Labor Party colors of red and yellow, were beginning to fade, a farm wife was asked if her husband had voted yet. "Nay, nay," she answered, "he's ower thrang [too busy] yit, he's got his coos to milk." But the voters turned out-82% of them, as compared with 51% in the last U.S. presidential election...