Word: obey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martini mixer. Experience becomes instinct, and criticism is much easier than it looks: reject stories written by those who are not your friends, particularly unwashed people; accept stories containing delectable bons mots in foreign languages, the more exotic the better. How to pick poetry is a more complex problem: obey your nose and judge the poet on the basis of his fragrance...
...poor but respectable part of the city. The father, a priest and a scholar, puts in a long day as a religious teacher on the banks of the holy Ganges. The mother struggles to make a home in a strange new world, to observe the country decencies and obey the laws of caste. But how can she keep her son Apu, now ten, from running wild in the swarming streets...
Honey, what's this jazz about love, honor, and obey...
...press conference about 5,500 Navy children locked out or threatened at Norfolk, raised a question about the South that applied to Governor Almond: "Is the citizen, be he an official or be he a man that is working in civil life and outside the Government, ready to obey the laws of his state and his nation...
...auto brake cylinder) squirts controlled amounts of fuel into the combustion chamber. They ignite when they mingle. So far, the system has been tested only in an experimental rocket engine on the ground. But if it can be developed, the Navy's feed mechanism could be made to obey radioed instructions from the earth, deliver thrusts to a space satellite varying from a massive push to the most delicate of nudges...