Word: nay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chebrikov: Well that clumsy fool took the bait, and he started an anti-Bok campaign, blasting the president for allowing, nay, even rejoicing in the fact that this man Womack was on the Harvard faculty. Buckley took that liberal goo-goo and his fuddy-duddy academic freedom to task, but as he is so accustomed to do he went...
Because of d'Aubuisson's blatant disregard, nay, hostility, towards human rights, his election would most likely force Congress to withdraw military aid to El Salvador list it forfeit any of the moral high ground U.S. foreign policy so aspires to. Moreover, the thought of a cut-off of its blood line would, immediately, pit much of the army against d'Aubuisson. Thus, the political floor work would hopefully collapse from underneath d'Aubuisson before the entire country blew up, the latter being the most likely outcome...
...hand in American politics and the latter of whom had been in disarray since the days of President Coolidge. But this year a new group of fundamentalists promises to have an important hand in opposing Reagan. That is, a new constituency of democratically minded citizens who, one hopes, will nay say Reagan's flagrant disregard for the spirit of the welfare state and the rights of free speech in America...
...vote against considering the tax bill, the Speaker's slipping leadership grip was evident: he found 65 Democrats voting against him. An even bigger factor in the loss was the partisanship of the Republican opposition. Fully 149 G.O.P. Representatives voted nay, only 13 aye. O'Neill's barbed protest was apt: "The next time I see Republican crocodile tears about the deficits, I will ask them where their party was today...
...Civil Rights Act of 1964 so that the law would cover membership in private clubs that derive "a substantial portion of income from business sources"? Supporters of the proposal noted that much legal business is transacted in clubs that routinely exclude women or members of minority groups. A nay vote, argued Dennis Archer of Detroit, "would be an A.B.A.-sanctioned blackball against some of your colleagues." The delegates backed the proposal, 183 to 152, although there was no official recommendation that lawyers as individuals should resign membership in discriminatory clubs...