Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they." When he was not immediately arrested, he called the Government "derelict in its duty." As for Spock, he told the reporters swarming through his East Side apartment that he hoped "100,000, 200,000 or even 500,000 young Americans either refuse to be drafted or to obey orders if in military service...
...Premier Constantine Karamanlis had heated up the political climate by calling on the junta to step down. Politicians on both the right and left sent the King secret assurances of their support, should he make a move. His advisers, mostly retired generals, assured him that the military would obey his commands. Furthermore, Constantine sensed a growing threat to what was left of his royal power. He may also have feared that the new constitution that was being prepared under junta guidance would strip the crown of the power of appointing and dismissing Premiers, the King's most potent prerogative...
...setting liquor rules and women's visiting hours for clubs but not in overseeing the selection of club members. The University cannot say that it is neutral in the affairs of private clubs if it sets social rules, the 13 argued, so they would not sign an agreement to obey those rules, required of all club members. Colonial is an influential club, and if the resignations had not been so untimely, it is clear that other clubs would have followed the Bicker boycott...
...During seven years in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the past two of them as its chief, the lanky, intense attorney has had action aplenty. He has faced down mobs of angry, riotous Negroes as calmly as he has forced rough-knuckled Southern sheriffs to obey the nation's laws against discrimination. Almost singlehanded, Doar pried open the South's voting booths for the Negro by personally prosecuting more than 30 voting-rights cases in federal court, since 1960 has participated in every major civil rights case from the admission of James Meredith into...
Only 13 hours before Gary's polls opened, the panel of judges issued a six-part injunction to foil the fraud. More than 1,000 false names were ordered removed from the voters' lists, and officials were sternly warned to obey election laws. With rumors of violence spreading in some white neighborhoods, Gary's entire 268-man police force was put on a twelve-hour shift, and Democratic Governor Roger D. Branigin ordered 300 state troopers and 5,000 National Guardsmen to be ready to move into the city on 30 minutes' notice. As it turned...