Word: nay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus it was with disbelief, nay astonishment, that the few basketball fans Harvard has left realized last week that for 24 hours the Crimson was tied for first place in the Ivy League. The bubble was dented the next evening when Penn defeated Columbia to advance its record to 4-1. But at the semester break the Crimson was tied with Yale for second place, each having 3-1 records...
...those who are attacked continue to contribute. Why? Is a lust for pain? Yes, in some case Heroics? Perhaps. The writer stand for something. He becomes an emblem of the great trial, and everyone sympathizes with him, nay, sings his praises without reading his work...
...first new U.S. stock exchange since 1934, Natex (pronounced Nay-tex) will cater to fledgling companies that cannot meet the requirements of the major exchanges. While the American Stock Exchange rarely lists a company unless it has earnings of at least $150,000, and the New York Stock Exchange demands $1,000,000, Natex will have no minimum earnings requirement...
...believe that an informed public is the foundation of our great American democratic? Don't you feel that newspapers have a duty--nay, a sacred obligation an agreement with destiny--to inform, and thus to keep alive the democratic process...
...impossible to say whether they succeeded or failed. Yet it is a fact of politics that individual hopes ride on expedient fusions like this peace march; one must delve into its complex purposes and distinguish the dominant from the variant and the deviant in order to say yea or nay with more than prejudice...