Word: nay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasions can be read in the titles: A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment; In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband His Absence; Before the Birth of One of Her Children. To her husband there are outpourings of diffident ardor: "My head, my heart, mine eyes, nay, more." His business trips rankled...
Counterattack. With thousands of workers pouring into Peking from the nay-saying cities, the capital was poised for trouble. Radio Moscow claimed that the situation threatened to paralyze Peking's factories and rail communications. Wall posters (see box) reported one incident in which anti-Mao mobs stormed the cabinet building and "bloody clashes ensued." Premier Chou En-lai addressed a group of railway men, urging that service be restored; he also complained that Railways Minister Lu Cheng-tsao had been held captive by the workers for five days...
...queen that he has put on his payroll. He is a fugitive from his own district, where he faces a year and four months in jail for defying a $164,000 libel judgment. He is seen only sporadically in Congress, where his absentee record (50% in 1966 on yea-nay roll-call votes) is one of the worst. His fellow House members have largely stripped him of his authority as chairman of the Education and Labor Committee; he even faces a challenge to his seating in the next Congress. As if all this were not enough, a House subcommittee last...
...longing for them. Even Saul was elevated to kingship against the advice of the Prophet Samuel, who warned Israel that a king "will take your sons . . . and he will take your daughters . . . and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king." But the people insisted "Nay, but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." At this, the Lord gave in. "Hearken unto their voice," he said to Samuel, "and make them...
...election year, when a "nay" might seem like a vote for atheism, Ev was confident that he could put the amendment over. Nor was he worried that Senate liberals might try to talk it to death. "Well, now," he said, "if anybody wants to filibuster the Lord...