Word: yea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy that is mainly air force with seagoing auxiliaries -will have the major say in world affairs. Then the U.S. will no longer be the nation of the county fair and the little red schoolhouse. It will be the nation that has the power by yea or nay to open the seas and widen economic frontiers to all peaceful peoples, to close them as readily to aggressors...
...boys who would you have on your football team, your police force, or in your army: a man who, seeing the light, has ambition, the willingness, yea the guts, to fight for what he considers just, whether it be on a firing line or walking in front of a factory with his banner held aloft...
...Tempus, O Morons-your faqade is pornographic-yea, scatological...
...been sold. The rest is for sale. But its dozen or so oldsters stay on. The sisters wear the bonnets, severe dresses and cloaks of their predecessors. Buxom Sister Lillian makes fine chairs. Frail, nearly toothless Elderess Sarah Collins, 85, putters among her souvenirs, cackles affably, with many a "yea" and "nay," makes and sells braided rugs. She is one of the orphans who stuck with the Shakers. When a visitor last week remarked on the variety of Shaker work, Elderess Sarah explained: "Yea, we made everything except babies...
...rousing toot-&-boom of brass bands, Republican doctors worked feverishly over the moribund GOP in Cleveland, June 1936. The patient stirred briefly, collapsed in November. Dreary days followed for the Republican Party. The little flicker of life wavered, almost went out. Yet up-&-down the land plodded one yea-saying, stubborn prophet, preaching Principles, an old-fashioned sermon that was drowned out in the pounding, recurrent crescendos of New Deal swing music...