Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the wise money in Paris was betting seven to five that most Frenchmen would vote "yes" in the Constitution referendum. If they did, M.R.P.'s seven months of cooperation might end soon-with M.R.P. tossed out to make way for a Government of the Left...
With an average of 33 percent favoring blanket adoption of the proposals, the House votes ran parallel to each other, while a 50 percent all-yes in the Union, where one glass of milk is the regular portion, emphasized student concern with that item elsewhere...
...ballot will consist of a total of six items, upon which students will be asked to vote yes or no, depending on willingness to cooperate on any or all of the six measures. Included for consideration are the following proposals: elimination or breads for dinner; a milk limit of one glass per meal; elimination of cakes or cookies with ice cream; 15 percent curtailments in meat and fish supplies; removal of dessert from noon meal; elimination of all wheat cereals...
...M.R.P. and the Right were not persuaded. The final vote was tense and tight. President Gouin cast a white cardboard ballot, meaning yes. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. followed with a blue slip, meaning no. When all the tallies were in, the Communist-Socialist combine had won, 309 to 249. The proposed Constitution for the Fourth Republic went to the French people for approval or rejection...
Japanese nightcrawlers, toward the end of the war, often crawled in vain. They would sneak toward U.S. lines, trusting the friendly night. Then out of the silent darkness, a well-aimed bullet would pick them off. Could U.S. snipers see in the dark? Last week, the Army said yes and told...