Word: obey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moment of Decision. As he passed the 2,000-ft. mark with his engines turning at full take-off power, he faced one of a pilot's most critical decisions. Should he use the rest of the runway in trying to get off? Or should he obey the classic flying rule that it is safer to plough through a fence on the ground than to push through, a bad takeoff...
...German Confessional Church, however, prefers to quote Peter: "We ought to obey God, rather than men" (Acts...
...birth of conscience, the being who was to become man only differed from his ancestors morphologically. He was subject to the laws of nature, to the laws of evolution, he had to obey, and that was right. The moment he asked himself the question as to whether an act was 'good' or whether another was 'better,' he acquired a liberty denied to the animals. . . . Henceforth ... in order to evolve he must no longer obey Nature. He must criticize and control his desires which were previously the only...
...Statesman must be treated on a dead level with the astrologists, the pornographers and the trashmongers. The daily organ of the licensed victuallers can continue to appear; we must stop ... if the Government's prohibition is maintained, we shall have no alternative next week but to obey it and to concede to Mr. Shinwell what Goring could not achieve...
...Irene is a superb couturiére) and discussed Deborah's wardrobe. Within a week he wanted to shoot the scene in which The Hucksters' hero makes a pass at The Hucksters' heroine, and he wanted a dress for it right away. While Irene rushed to obey, Deborah was rushed to Make-up and Hairdressing. Make-up did everything to Deborah Kerr's face that the most ingenious cosmetic artists in the world can do. In the end, it decided that it was impossible to do anything for her that nature had not done already. Hornblow...