Word: nay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulations strike deep at arcane devices dear to the Senate parliamentarians. Many members often feign forgetfulness about whether they voted aye or nay and interrupt roll calls to ask whether their vote has been recorded and how they voted. This is a time-spinning maneuver, enabling habitual latecomers-notably including New York's Bobby Kennedy and Illinois' Charles Percy-to vote. Henceforth, this maneuver is out. Instead, Senate clerks will make a "slow call" of the roll, which, its proponents insist, will give laggards at least 15 minutes to reach the chamber...
...Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull the superstar of his blazing sport. A legion of partisans call him "the Golden Jet" and "Mr. Hockey," regard him as the greatest player of this or any other day-and rare is the expert who says them nay...
...thrill of a lifetime," Dwight Eisenhower called it, and no golfer would say him nay. After 22 years of whacking away at the little white ball, the 77-year-old former President scored his first hole in one by rapping a nine-iron into the cup on the 104-yd. 13th hole at the Seven Lakes Country Club course in Palm Springs. Ike was hot as an afterburner the whole round. He scored an eagle on the par four, 260-yd. eighth hole, and his tee shot at the 122-yd. 18th hit the pin for an easy birdie...
...Texas College in Killeen, the Space Assembly Facility at Michoud, La., and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention at Bal Harbour, Fla., Johnson mixed folksiness, fire and factitiousness to concoct a politically potent brew. Over and over again, he poured scorn on "the complainers, the critics, the doubters" and those ubiquitous "nay sayers." Repeatedly he called the roll of his Administration's breakthroughs: Medicare, aid to primary and secondary education, the poverty program and all the rest. Predictably ignoring the fact that he himself slowed down innovation and sought to curb spending increases in the past year, he called for more...
After some speakers had had their say, he finally demanded simply a vote on the basic issue. "I want a yea or nay vote on the principle of tuition," he said. "I'm against the hypocrisy of calling tuition something else." Reagan's motion was defeated 14 to 7, but later the regents agreed, by voice vote, to name a special committee that will suggest new "fees" for next year to finance "student aid, faculty enrichment, and/or other uses"-apparently the same things that Reagan's tuition charge was supposed...