Word: disobeying
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...Soros was a boy when the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944. They rounded up all the Jews they could find and murdered most of them in concentration camps. Soros survived only because his father--who had lived through the Russian Revolution--knew that this was a time to disobey orders. He bought the family false identity papers and places to live and hide...
...shameful that Flinn referred to her situation as a "mistake." A mistake is dialing the wrong number or locking your keys in the car. What Flinn did was lie, disobey direct orders and bring dishonor to herself. This is much more than a mistake. This kind of "mistake maker" should not be flying nuclear weapons. CURT PAISON Chicago...
Officer pilots in command of nuclear weapons cannot be allowed to lie and disobey direct orders without repercussions. For an officer to commit adultery with the spouse of an enlisted person is most reprehensible and inexcusable. The Air Force tried to treat Lieut. Flinn more gently, and it is unfair to fault the service because of Flinn's lying about the adulterous relationship and her refusal to follow a direct order. GEORGE G. DANIELS Orlando...
...contrast, guilt nipped my fun right in the bud. Yes, I went on to disobey my mother, but only so much. I felt O.K. in doing so because on most other fronts, I went along with her. Thou Shalt Not Smoke Pot is not the 11th Commandment, I rationalized. Armed with that perspective and the sound of my mother's voice in my head, I could tinker with the rules and push the boundaries without being afraid I would cross them. So, Mom, it was your fault after...
This injunction is peculiar and hard to disobey, given the gradual development in Western art of the maker overwhelming the made. Michelangelo became "Michelangelo" because his contemporaries, and then posterity, recognized the genius displayed across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and in such of his statues as David and Pieta. A similar process transformed Shakespeare into "Shakespeare." In both cases, magnificent achievements led to posthumous idolatry...