Word: disobeyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, attempts to disobey a law in support of some larger cause are not at all unknown in American history. The Underground Railroad before the Civil War was clearly designed to side-track the Fugitive Slave Law and speed escaping slaves to Canada. Suffragettes, too, were willing to break ordinance after ordinance to extend the vote...
...Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old Negro seamstress, was ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to get up and make way for some white passengers. She refused, was arrested and fined $10 under an Alabama law making it a misdemeanor for any person to disobey a bus driver's seating instructions. But that was not the last of the Rosa Parks case: it has since been used to prove that economic reprisal, as advocated against Negroes by the white Citizens' Councils of the South (TIME, Dec. 12), is a double-edged blade...
...sort of malignant disease, the curing of which justified the use of any means." But before he is cured, Sholom pals around with a scampish set of Jewish Huckleberry Finns: Shmulik the Orphan, Gergeleh the Thief, and Feivel the Lip. The boys glory in three maxims: 1) "Always disobey your parents," 2) "Be sure to hate your teacher," 3) "Never fear the Lord." His death in 1916 prevented Author Aleichem from carrying his boyhood story over the threshold of manhood, but even as it stands, The Great Fair is a charmingly apt epitaph for the Yiddish Mark Twain...
...Grisly Hours. Only in a few places did G.I.s disobey the Eighth Army order not to mingle with the enemy. Even then, it was not to "celebrate." A few days before the truce, marines on the western front had been engaged in a fierce fight with the Chinese. Two hundred bodies, all but a few of them Chinese, lay on East Berlin Hill and in the valley around the outpost. At the first dawn of peace, a handful of Chinese started up the slope toward Marine positions 25 yards away. Carefully the Reds wound through the debris of war: unexploded...
...much a Poppins characteristic as her long, turned up nose, her carpetbag (which is always empty and yet, somehow, always contains her starched aprons and a camp bed), and the parrot-headed umbrella which is the closest she gets to a magic wand. Children who threaten to disobey Mary Poppins (it is never more than a threat) are reduced by one glance from her ice-blue eyes. In her latest adventure-fantasy, the creator of Mary Poppins, Australian-born Mrs. Pamela L. Travers, offers a cautionary bit of advice: "I warn you, children, take care of your shadows or your...