Word: yea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point Vice President Alben Barkley spoke up. "The position of the chair," he said, "has been in favor of support at 90%. In every speech he made last year he declared the same position. He cannot now repudiate it, and therefore votes 'yea...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes, and...I shall summon, with all due reverence, the shade of that greatest member of the Supreme Court of the United States"" The defense attorney went on dramatically ticking off the "fiery crucibles" in which Hiss had represented the State Department-Yalta . . . Dumbarton Oaks . . . San Francisco. "Yea," he trumpeted, "though I walk through the valley of death I shall not fear, for I am with Alger Hiss...
...madness called Communism ... I avow that unless the whole American people, without further ostrichlike actions and pretenses, unite to stop the Communist floodings of our own land, our sons, for the third and last time, shall be summoned ... to bear arms against those who would desecrate and destroy them. Yea, it is full time that a strong and vigilant America unite in prayer and protest...
...faculty committee, Butterworth and Phillips finally admitted party membership. The committee decided that was not cause for dismissal. The committee also cleared the three who had admitted to onetime membership. But Professor-Gundlach, who still would not say yea or nay, was another matter entirely. The committee recommended he be dismissed for his very evasiveness...
...Menninger's answer to his own question was a loud yea-with conditions. Psychiatrists, he said, could do the job-if there were enough of them. World War II had contributed to psychiatrists' experience in two important ways: 1) it had taught them that there are many more psychoneurotics at large than anyone had previously imagined (of all Army inductees, a startling 12% were rejected for mental disorders); and 2) it had provided clinical proof that no one, no matter how calm and complacent, is immune to psychoneurosis if the emotional strains get tough enough...