Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry," Alben advised. "I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell," promised the President. "You ought not to say 'hell,' " daughter Margaret admonished her father. Senator Barkley suggested: "It is going to be a victorious trip." Said Harry Truman briskly: "Yes, sir. It is going...
...were known to be hesitant about breaking off the talks with Molotov. The key to the situation was the question of whether the airlift (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) could continue, throughout the winter, to feed, warm and hold Berlin. That crucial question General Clay answered last week with a clear yes. He said he was sure that the airlift could not only provide Western Berlin with its necessities but sustain its economic life at pre-blockade level. With the possible exception of two tough winter months, he was convinced that "Operation Vittles" could be extended to flying in raw materials...
...Yes, says the Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...
...Yes or No. The basic unit of the nervous system, said Dr. Hoagland, is the neuron or nerve cell. When neurons are stimulated, a wave of electrical energy passes along their interconnecting fibers. When it reaches the "synapses" where the fibers touch those of other nerve cells, it may pass the impulse along. Or it may not. This "yes-or-no" response of the neurons, Dr. Hoagland believes, is the basis of brain operation. Certain calculating machines work the same way, their vacuum tubes or relays responding or not to the electrical impulses that reach 'them...
...four games, will you consider it a successful season?" Art Valpey asked the Boston sportswriters at last winter's get-acquainted meeting. "Yes!" chorused the experts...