Word: nays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge University Research Psychologist Margaret Vince had had the opportunity of knowing my grandmother, it would have saved her a great deal of time and expensive equipment in solving the problem of why all quail and poultry eggs hatch out on the same day, nay, the same hour as their siblings [May 27]. It is all very wonderful to know the embryo can "click" prior to hatching, but I am skeptical of the click's effectiveness in communicating the time of emergence. The latter is based entirely on the period of incubation, which is never begun by a smart...
Next day the move to table Morse's rider was passed by 92 votes to 5. The five votes all came from Democrats: Alaska's Ernest Gruening, Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy, Ohio's Stephen Young, Sponsor Morse and, most notably, Bill Fulbright. With that nay, Fulbright may well have widened irreversibly the breach between himself and Lyndon Johnson. White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers had gone out of his way to emphasize that the President would regard any vote to kill Morse's motion as the equivalent of reconfirming the Tonkin resolution...
...federal aid, from which Wyoming in the past has recoiled as if it were a one-way pass to perdition. Last year, nonetheless, Hansen persuaded the legislature to repeal a Wyoming law that prohibited the use of state funds to match federal grants for public education (the only nay votes in either house came from Republicans). Says Hansen: "I don't stand against federal programs. My job is to make all the elements of the federal program work as well as possible for Wyoming, even though I may not personally agree with the principles of the programs...
...achievement, which is perfectly fine since the only other reactions the film could possibly produce are boredom and fury at having paid the whopping three dollar admission. Paris is so interminably long, so badly acted, so deliciously incoherent that it could very well be the flop of the year, nay, the decade...
...councils sterile." Thus last week did Ferdinand Marcos, 48, enter office as the sixth President of the Philippine Republic. Never before had the Philippines heard so scathing a national condemnation, and rarely so demanding a peroration: "Not one hero alone do I ask from you, but many-nay, all. By your choice you have committed yourselves...