Word: obey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy secretary of that committee, Bang-Jensen had promised witnesses that their names would never be revealed. Convinced that if Communist agents within the U.N. got hold of the witnesses' names, relatives still in Hungary would suffer reprisals, Bang-Jensen held on to the documents, refused to obey U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's orders to turn them over to the U.N. Secretariat. After a long and bitter wrangle, Hammarskjold finally agreed to let Bang-Jensen destroy the papers...
Next morning, the King celebrated his birthday by attending service in Namirembe Cathedral, and listened thoughtfully to a sermon by Bishop Brown, which stressed that even Kings must obey God's commandments and Christ's teachings if they wish to be regarded as Christians. Canceling a ceremonial visit to Parliament because the British Resident, Anthony Richards, would be there (the King is constantly embroiled in quarrels with Britain as well as with his wife, his brother, and the Anglican Church), King Freddie went to a soccer game...
...When President Conant insisted. I obey the law," Mater reminisces, "he accompanied his statement with the idea he heartily disapproved of the whole idea." And so Mater capitulated--partially...
...industry negotiator, told the Virginia Manufacturers Association that the union enjoys "vastly" greater power than the companies; that Steelworker President David McDonald is the "only man who can choke off our nation's steel supply at will." When the Supreme Court order was announced, McDonald agreed to obey "the law of the land," but struck a do-or-die pose. Cried he: "Steelworkers do not quit. They will not bow down to industrial tyranny...
Centuries ago the Triad Society was a kind of Chinese freemasonry whose aim was "to obey Heaven and act righteously," but the Singapore offshoot of Triad has degenerated in recent years into a Crime Incorporated of young toughs who terrorize the city. The occupying Japanese temporarily checked the Triad during World War II by lopping off fingers for even the smallest thefts, but today the Triad boasts a small army of extortionists and pimps, gunmen and gamblers, organized in four cadres identifiable only by number and their tattooed insignia on the backs of the Triad's 10,000 initiates...