Word: nays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year 2023, when this year's seniors return for their 25th reunion and recall the glory days of their Harvard experience, the diversity of background, culture, opinion and upbringing distributed among their peers will be foremost in their minds. Diversity is the apotheosis of today's Harvard experience--nay, of today's educational experience...
...more resemble the color of the rich earth than does concrete. They hearken back to Boston's colonial history. They seem man-made (though their exactitude testifies otherwise), and they are man-laid. Most importantly, though, they are universal in this neighborhood, each foot of sidewalk being covered by--nay, created from--the red, rectangular blocks. One can walk from Mather House straight to the Quad in any number of ways solely on brick paths, save intersections. Along the way, one does not feel isolated from the buildings, for they, too, are forged from brick, or as is the case...
...public facts should be tempered by a sense of responsibility and by the recognition that what you print has consequences. When you refer to Elster (in centimeter-high letters, no less) as "the alleged rapist," and when you fill your front page with innuendo-laced drivel, you contribute to--nay, create--a presumption of guilt within the Harvard community which I believe will be impossible for Elster to counteract, should be actually turn out to be what the law currently presumes him to be: innocent. SCOTT A. CHESIN...
...didn't he have the manliness to tell the bride about it in person? That was the articulated, official male response. But off in a range of the male psyche audible only to guys and dogs, there vibrated the sneaking thought that the fugitive groom--however big a jerk, nay, slimeball--had made good an escape that men, in the yet undomesticated zones of their hearts, always applaud. Something in every man abhors a wedding. Not for nothing are such ceremonies performed by authority-and-punishment figures in black--clergy, judges. And as a guy contemplates the $125,000 trap...
...Peabody) and the 79 other Massachusetts state representatives who voted against the death penalty bill in the House on Nov. 6. The bill, an earlier version of which had passed the House and Senate, failed unexpectedly when Slattery changed his vote on the revised conference bill from "yea" to "nay...