Word: nay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Coproration every seven years. Whatever that meant--since no president has tenure and can be fired at any time--Brewster's first seven years just happened to be coming to a close and, to no one's surprise he was allowed--nay, encouraged-- to remain at his post. In that same speech, however, he dismissed unilaterally the prowing pressure for student representation in university decisions. Students don't want power, Brewster revealed, they really want responsiveness (whatever that meant) from the administration. And he planned to supply them with all the responsiveness...
...Nay Jama--Passim, 47 Palmer...
Everyone else is out chopping down the forest, Bunyans, nay Weyerhauesers. But White is standing still and looking at the trees, separating the solid lumber from the rotted. And from a single tree he can find the whole wood--almost the reverse of the more common sort of writing, which takes the world and boils it down into a single character. It is skill--not passion, not energy, not vision--that carries White; for anyone without the skill, his method of approaching big ideas is impossible. He is a singles hitter, but his average is high...
Girls-and some boys-have taken to wearing lapel buttons inscribed NO. This flat statement may make for flat evenings, but the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver and a group for unwed mothers, which are distributing the buttons to students, report that the nay signs are catching...
...Make Today My Birthday," the small carton trumpets, nay, pleads. "Here's how...when you get me home, carefully remove me from the box. I am not blinking yet, but if you place your thumbs on my side...you will feel my heart (battery with cap). Squeeze firmly...my heart will start, and my light will begin blinking continuously...