Word: disobeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam. Sent out on patrol, the soldier spots a peasant riding a bicycle in an area the villagers have been told is restricted. Since he appears to be innocent, though presumably he has been warned against entering the area, should the soldier shoot him, try to capture him, or disobey orders and ignore...
...alleged conspiracy consists in counselling young men to evade the draft and to disobey Selective Service laws, such as the one which requires that draftable men carry draft cards on their person...
Every year Chiang Kai-shek decrees that there be no official observation of his birthday. Every year the Formosans disobey. This year, for the Gimo's 81st, dragon and lion dancers pranced through the streets of Taipei, and a delegation of 3,000 overseas Chinese presented gilt scrolls enumerating their achievements of the past year. Nationalist Vice President Chia-kan Yen proclaimed that Chiang's "achievements in the promotion of nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood have made him the No. 1 man in the world...
...course, the chief target on China's periphery. The Chinese daily heap abuse on the Russians, and Moscow reported last week that hundreds of chanting Chinese demonstrators had tried to cross the Russian border at Khabarovsk in Siberia ear lier this year, calling on the Soviet guards to disobey their officers as men who had "sold themselves to American imperialism...
...bizarre set of domestic arrangements. After they married, his job around the house would be to wait on her hand and foot. His royalty checks were earmarked for furs and fine whips. For her part, Wanda was expected to chastise him regularly, and in general she promised to dishonor, disobey and degrade him. To that effect, they signed a "treaty." But the marriage went wrong. Biographer Cleugh does not succeed in explaining why, but it is fairly obvious that Frau Sacher-Masoch had no intention of keeping her vows. His entreaties notwithstanding, she refused at first to be unfaithful...