Word: yea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yea, said San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, who has the habit of unconventional utterance. While he was speaking at the University of California at Berkeley, someone inevitably brought up the subject of San Francisco's famed topless dancers. Preached Pike, in the spirit of the Song of Songs: "We must always be in a position of thanksgiving to God for the beauties of his handiwork...
...more accurate manuscripts than those available to the translators of the King James version. Thus his syntax and synonyms are often radically different from what is found in the King James, and he abandons many of its most hallowed images. Gone from Psalms 23, for example, is the elegiac "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." A comparison with Ugaritic cognates, Dahood argues, proves that the Hebrew correctly demands a more prosy reading: "Even though I should walk in the midst of total darkness...
Hayes' counterattack was met with loud clapping and shouts of "Yea...
...Even in an age when oversimplification often passes for understanding, your shallow condensation of Albert Camus and existentialism is remarkable. TIME has summarily dismissed one of the great yea-sayers of the 20th century...
...what's buggin' you guys? Is everyone anti-us? Yea, we dig the Beatles, go ape for causes, and cut out to disco-thèques, but man, weren't you ever a teenager? Sonny and Chér, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones are like us. They're part of our era. Everyone used to say we didn't care. Well, now we do, and what do you do? You make...