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...longing for them. Even Saul was elevated to kingship against the advice of the Prophet Samuel, who warned Israel that a king "will take your sons . . . and he will take your daughters . . . and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king." But the people insisted "Nay, but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." At this, the Lord gave in. "Hearken unto their voice," he said to Samuel, "and make them...
...election year, when a "nay" might seem like a vote for atheism, Ev was confident that he could put the amendment over. Nor was he worried that Senate liberals might try to talk it to death. "Well, now," he said, "if anybody wants to filibuster the Lord...
...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...