Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor persists. His lesson, a mixture of sophistry and flights of fancy, is incomprehensible. At last, in the climactic scene, he holds up an imaginary object and orders the girl to repeat "knife" in each of the Neo-Spanish idioms. But her pain has become unbearable, she cannot obey, and he stabs her to death with the invisible knife. His triumph is complete...
...which encompasses the southern half of the state. It has also been steadfastly segregated. But the Episcopal Church's Canon 16, as amended last October at the General Convention in St. Louis, bans the exclusion of any member from worship in any parish on racial grounds. Rather than obey the ruling, St. John's is leaving the Episcopal Church...
...process" guarantee that the 14th Amendment now imposes on the states. But Pointer's appeal revived a question that has long roiled the court: Does the 14th Amendment "incorporate" the specifics of the Bill of Rights and impose them on the states? If so, states must obey the full letter of the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause...
Businessmen usually obey the guidelines because they know that the FTC is tough to beat once it does go to court. The commission recently persuaded scores of sellers and advertisers to stop claiming falsely that products have been made by blind persons, exaggerating the profits that small investors can earn in Laundromat businesses, and enticing children to become salesmen by deceptive offers of "free" merchandise. Says Dixon: "I'm a great admirer of President Johnson's attitude of 'Come, let us reason together...
...free to hold and to voice any opinions not detrimental to the security of the country (which is a touchy business). Political groups unify people who have similar views, but one is not required to follow one or another of these groups or views. One is required only to obey the law. In the present case, rather than extending our ability to act by acting as a unit, we are in danger of losing our freedom to act as individuals. We have no need to empower RGA to declare us for the law of the land, and no right...