Word: obey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Union Ultimatum. The Dodge local's president, Mike Novak, issued an ultimatum to Chrysler: take back the eight discharged men. The union ignored pleas from the Army, refused to obey a War Labor Board order to go back to work and submit the grievance to mediation. A meeting at which International officers sought to intervene wound up in a rousing 30-minute fist fight...
...long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me." Throughout his childhood, at mo ments of extreme tension, he would be come immobile, in full possession of his mental faculties but without the power to make his hands or his voice obey his will. He was nervous and imaginative in a world where only the strong-willed and easy-going got along. When his mother got a job as a cook he ran wild in the streets of Jackson, sneaked into saloons and begged drinks from the customers, who taught him obscenities...
Women rarely obey nonsmoking rules. Every car on a train is a smoker to them and train crews cannot stop them...
...packed off to Camp Roberts, Cal. There he continued to make his views clear. He refused to obey orders and was court-martialed and given six months in the clink. Released for good behavior, he refused to drill with his squad. "I would rather be shot," he declared. Instead, he was court-martialed again and sentenced to be hanged...
...examples as "F as in fascio." One of the first reading lessons: " 'Duce, Duce,' the voice of the children reaches up into the office where the Duce is working. The Duce hears it and smiles and works for them. Says the Duce: 'Be good children and obey. To obey is your first duty...