Word: yea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barry Goldwater's forum was a bunting-draped platform at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, where a shirt-sleeved crowd of 12,000 turned out for "Republican Day." For 32 minutes, Goldwater spoke under a broiling sun. But he was cooled repeatedly by applause and chants of "Yea, Barry...
...Yea, I have slain my will, and still I live...
...hard to be present at every lecture, to compile a complete set of notes, to hand in all papers on time. Some Strivers copy a friend's notes if they miss the first five minutes of a lecture. These are the Andrew Carnegies of Harvard, the Thomas Gradgrinds, yea, even the Abraham Lincolns...
Absent: Democrat Clair Engle of California, recuperating from brain surgery at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital; he sent word that if he had been present he would have voted yea...
...suspense, the galleries were filled as photographers for the U.S. Capitol Historical Society recorded the moment-the first time picture-taking was authorized while the Senate was in session. All but two Senators had announced their views in advance, and the unknowns split, Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon voting "yea" and Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith weighing in with what she later described as "a troubled no." With the words, "I move that the President be immediately notified," Majority Leader Mansfield ended the proceedings. It was all over in ten minutes...