Word: disobeying
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...action. By the time he finally collapsed in an Army hospital, he was ready to tell his sorry story of shyness, nervousness, worry. Why had he been such a good soldier? "I forced myself to carry on. All my life I obeyed. I couldn't bring myself to disobey...
...order or command must be lawful for obedience to be required. No person in the Armies of the U.S. can be convicted of disobedience to an illegal order. Of course the burden of proof that a given order was illegal lies on the person who disobeys it. He had better be very certain that it is illegal before he dare disobey-particularly in war. Corollary is the responsibility of the person giving the order for its legality...
...from years of Army grind. The day they are to be sent back of the lines for a rest, the least popular of them gets trapped under enemy fire. Anxious as the others are to pull out, they are held back by some mystical emotion of comradeship and even disobey orders in an effort to rescue their...
This week listeners at Europe's 36,000,000 radio sets might have heard New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman preaching civil disobedience. The Archbishop's OWI broadcast (his first), rebroadcast by BBC, eloquently urged Hungary's nine million Roman Catholics* to disobey their Government's new anti-Semitic decrees...
...know that, at times, I am stubborn and refuse to listen to reason, that I am impertinent, and that I deliberately disobey simply because I resent the authority which imposes the rules, regulations, and minor penalties upon me. However, there must be other effective means of punishment than making me down my pants and cross the parental knee. After all, a 15-year-old girl is too old to spank...