Word: nays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hundred years, as we turn to another new century--nay, ten times a hundred years, when we turn to another new millennium--the name that will prove most enduring from our own amazing era will be that of Albert Einstein: genius, political refugee, humanitarian, locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe...
GNHBA: Pretty soon, if we're lucky, we can all talk in words that mean nothing. Gibberish. Pig Latin. I was pretty good at Pig Latin. Ix-nay on the olerance-tay, people. At this rate, I could have a political career...
...Vrooman says he?s tired of hearing about the Wen that got away. So a week after Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recommended Vrooman be punished for botching the spying case against fired-but-never-charged Wen Ho Lee, Vrooman got on the phone with the Washington Post. He suggested ? nay, insisted ? that not only was the espionage case against Lee "built on thin air," but that the Taiwan-born scientist also had been scapegoated because of his race. Vrooman won?t get into the nitty-gritty of the case ? top secret, and all that ? but he didn?t mind saying...
...been open to anyone willing to attend. These meetings, when I attended, were generally an open forum where the participants debated the rationale for taking actions as appropriate. What Shillinglaw and Worthem are suggesting is not responsiveness to a body of participating residents, but repression by a group of nay-sayers...
...Sterling P. A. Darling III '01 shrugged off nay sayers and did more than simply frame his certificate within a month of receiving it. His freshman year he brought it to Harvard and placed it right over his desk. "I just did it. When you get the admissions packet from Harvard, that's a tangible result." Darling doesn't understand why his fellow classmates did not do the same thing. "Most people once they arrive at Harvard lose the excitement," he says. Still, Darling notes that people did not react badly to his decorating technique. "I think one person [commented...