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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Waymack, representing the Atomic Energy Commission, also said something. The crowd of 150 didn't hear what they said because the public-address system got fouled up. The red-faced man came back out of the excavation again and asked: "They get it all fixed, Mac?" Yes, I told him, they got it all fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Anniversary in Chicago | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Beck, who also likes to shout, murmured "Yes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Lesson for Dave | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...riding through the Czech countryside one evening and in the distance I saw a great lighted building. I asked the Czech I was with what it was. "It's a factory," he said. Then I asked him what it produced. "Oh . . . I don't know," he said, and then, "Yes, yes, well they make . . . how do you say . . . guns . . . yes, machine guns. But not only guns. They make machines and other things, too." Here's a guy apologizing because we discoved a factory in his country making guns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: America, Russia Puzzle Czechs Equally | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

...protest the "JA" election which was foisted upon the student body by the Student Council today. On the ballot, under the heading "University-Wide" Food Conservation Poll" the student body was told, in a more three paragraphs, of all the wonderful things a "yes" vote would accomplish. Nothing appeared on the ballot to state the case for a "no" vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

...offer incense to the death of the Katayama cabinet," said one soused saboteur, as another slow-motion voting session started that evening. One scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tactical Toot | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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