Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the air of a man who suspects that his caller is playing a practical joke but is willing to string along for a while, Donaldson replied: "Yes, Mr. President." "Your boss has just resigned," said the voice. Donaldson knew that Postmaster General Bob Hannegan had just quit to buy the St. Louis Cardinals (see SPORT...
...Haitian Delegate Antonio Vieux spoke heatedly against partition; two days later he announced shamefacedly that his government had ordered him to switch to yes. Filipino Delegate General Carlos Romulo, on Wednesday, orated against partition and sailed away on the Queen Mary. Saturday a new Filipino delegate flew in from Washington, voted yes. Liberia, which voted no in committee, said yes in the final roll call. In the final days Arab and Jewish hopes alternately soared and plummeted...
...Yes, it has all the oldies--classical "standards," if you wish. The thing's glutted with them. But the plot--ah, the plot--it keeps gooing in. Marsha Hunt maudles the part of the mother who plans a concert pianist's career for her son, Tony. Miraculous point of the picture is the maintenance of Miss Hunt's girlish appearance throughout Tony's growth to manhood. Only when dewy-eyed Miss Hunt hears Tony break from Bach into jazz does a great gob of cornstarch fall on her hair and remain from that day forward...
Bert Andrews, of the stanchly Republican New York Herald Tribune, calculated quickly. "Will that be after the election next year?" he asked. The President looked him straight in the eye. With a faint edge in his voice, he said yes, that will be after the election. He paused. You know, he added dryly, the presidential term does not expire until January...
...Francisco, two gunmen, loaded with $5,230 they had just lifted from a department-store watchman, obligingly held open a door on their way out for four store employees, who had been working late. "Aren't you new here?" asked one of the employees. "Yes," said one,of the robbers. "What's your name?" "Morgenthau." "Oh, that's a good name. You must have lots of money." "I have, replied the thug...