Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Board has been subject to criticism from the state's politicians, the only instance of one of its decisions being circumvented occurred last fall. After the first of the three Barnett-Meredith meetings, the Board announced its decision to obey the court order and admit Meredith. The remainder of Gov. Barnett's actions were in violation of the constitution of the state...
...Life. Only a few years ago, any meaningful voyage to Venus would have been impossible. Spacemanship of such a high order involves the creation of clever mechanical beasts that can live and function for months in a hostile environment beyond Earth's atmosphere. They must obey commands from millions of miles away, a requirement that calls for radio techniques of incredible delicacy. Giant computers, only recently developed, must plot celestial courses, and enormous vacuum chambers are needed to test behavior in simulated space. These strange space creatures are almost a new type of life, comparable in zoological terms...
...Arkansas Agricultural Mining and Normal College students have been expelled for refusing to obey Arkansas AMN's President Lawrence Davis' request to stop the sit-in demonstrations in the local Pine Bluff chain store...
...that Telstar's solar cells were generating plenty of electricity. Its temperature was normal, and no intruder, such as a meteorite, had damaged its delicate nervous system. Apparently the only trouble was in the command decoders. Telstar was ablebodied, but without working decoders it could not hear and obey commands...
...another suggestion: close the public schools. And as the state began to do just that, establishing private "academies" from which Negro pupils could be legally barred, Kilpatrick cheered. "Let it stay that way," he wrote, after a high school in Front Royal, Va., shut its doors rather than obey a federal injunction to admit 22 Negroes...