Word: obey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convinced that in many parts of this country freedom of the people does not exist. ... [I am prepared to] stand by the side of the present constitutional Government until it has a national army under its banners, and is able to hold free elections." He gave EAM the choice: obey or be suppressed. General Scobie proposed to fight unrest with food. For in Greece, as in other parts of liberated Europe, hunger and political disorder went together. For Greece last week the question was: would food or civil war get there first...
...Broadway's five-year-young Life with Father, fetched a record price to splutter in Technicolor for Warner Bros. Warners will give the owners (Mrs. Clarence Day, Producer Oscar Serlin, Dramatists Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) $500,000 down and half the gross, cannot release Father before 1947, must obey the owners' Ten Commandments (sternest commandment: thou shalt not film any script of which we disapprove...
...Roosevelt got a tremendous hand. He took it like a veteran trouper. "In my reading copy is another half sentence," he said, "but you got the point and I'm not going to use it. I happen to believe that even in a political, campaign we ought to obey that ancient injunction-Thou shalt not bear false witness...
...commandant tried persuasion. He sent the chaplain to talk to them. The chaplain pleaded: "Come on, boys, I'll go with you." The Negroes still balked. The commandant and his executive talked to them individually but could persuade only 21 of them to obey orders and go to work...
...order, therefore, at this moment, that no civilian authority accept any order from an authority that these usurpers arrogantly assume. Secondly, that no military authority and no leader of troops and no soldier obey any order by these usurpers...