Word: obey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they merely pretending to obey American orders while actually persevering in their evil intentions? A. No people likes to truckle to alien rule. The Japs are no exception...
...good cheer was superficial. The seizure had been caused by Ward's refusal to obey a National War Labor Board order for maintenance-of-membership and dues check-off for the C.I.O.'s United Retail Employes Union. When the U.S. Army marched in and literally carried Sewell Avery out, it put the order into effect. Last week Sewell Avery promptly rescinded the order. Said one War Department official: "Hell, Ward's would have stopped the check-off and maintenance if we'd stayed here until the Second Coming. That's why the whole business...
...same theme song that the judicial authorities of the United Nations have heard from every German prisoner accused of war crimes. "All that the Austrian judge could say," declares the astonished storm troop periodical, was "I wasn't at fault. I had to do it. I had to obey orders...
...legitimately doubt the sincere willingness of the national leadership to embrace the permanent role of a peaceable fourth-rate power, but here in the midst of it one can scarcely doubt the sincerity of the people's relief over the war's end and their willingness to obey the government in submission to the occupation...
...Japs' Domei News Agency, trying to be helpful, offered news service free to U.S. correspondents. Samples: More robberies committed by Americans; mentally deranged man shot for failing to obey U.S. orders; new assaults on Japanese women by invading troops...