Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring 167 persons demonstrated before the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery and were charged variously with loitering, disturbing the peace and refusing to obey officers. Also arrested were 16 persons who had demonstrated at Montgomery's predominantly Negro Alabama State College. The charge against them: trespassing. Both groups sought to have their cases transferred from local to federal court, on the grounds that they were exercising their constitutional rights...
...disobedience under the guise of demonstrating or protesting for 'civil rights.' The philosophy that a person may-if his cause is labeled 'civil rights' or 'states' rights'-determine for himself what laws and court decisions are morally right or wrong and either obey or refuse to obey them according to his own determination, is a philosophy that is foreign to our 'rule-of-law' theory of government...
...accounts, does Lyndon Johnson, the man whom Humphrey promised to love, honor and obey when he took on the vice-presidency. Wherever Johnson cannot be, Humphrey is. Last week that meant a two-day, five-speech swing around the Western U.S. Landing in San Diego, he plunged into a sea of greeting hands. "How are you, young lady?" he bubblingly inquired of a woman who must have been...
...jeopardy case. Charged with bank robbery, Bartkus had been acquitted in a federal court-then convicted of the same crime in a state court. Fisher soon produced a highly impressive brief for Life Prisoner Bartkus. Reluctantly, the Supreme Court twice rejected his arguments on the grounds that Americans must obey both state and federal courts, but the Illinois legislature was so impressed that it passed laws preventing any repeat of the Bartkus case. In 1960 Fisher got the now wholly rehabilitated Bartkus a pardon-completing roughly $75,000 worth of free legal service. "This case," Fisher insisted, "is important...
...cirrhosis, and the pig-liver substitute worked well for only about six hours at a time, which was nowhere near long enough to let the patients' livers recover. But only two men failed to respond to the treatment, and five came out of their coma long enough to obey spoken commands. One asked for a cigarette on the operating table, and another was coherent for four days...