Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...platform that seemed extreme even by Alabama standards. The federal judiciary, he claimed, is "lousy and irresponsible." U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., who once ordered voting records turned over to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, was an "integrating, scalawagging, carpetbagging liar." Promising that he would refuse to obey "any order to mix races in our schools," Wallace offered to "stand in the schoolhouse door," and, if need be, go to jail before permitting integration. To suggestions that his position might be too strong for the voters to stomach, Wallace retorted: "How can you be too strong on what...
...County, Miss., the Rev. John Miles Barnes, a Negro with a tenth-grade education, who has tried to register several times a year for the past eleven years, tried again last week. He failed. Voting Registrar Theron C. Lynd, who has already been cited for contempt for failing to obey a federal court order, asked Barnes to copy and interpret a section of the Mississippi constitution. Lynd was, as usual, dissatisfied with the result. According to the Justice Department, other Negroes found illiterate by Lynd include five college graduates, one of whom was a National Science Foundation Scholarship winner...
...smart money figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza stood bolt upright in the stirrups, desperately trying to hold the stubborn colt back. It was a losing fight...
...needs a little or a good bit of demythologizing-nevertheless, she may also be seen and interpreted and understood well as a symbol of the true theology, one not of liberty but of freedom. It is a real human freedom, one which God gives us in his grace to obey him." An American theology of freedom, Barth said, should include "freedom from any inferiority complex over or against good old Europe, freedom from a superiority complex over or against Asia and Africa." It should also include freedom "from fear of Communism, Russia, inevitable nuclear warfare and, generally speaking...
...order to obey the commands the mind, the fingers, the hands, the arms must have achieved such a degree of independence and skill, a variety of touch, of such a delicasy a speed and strength, that they all at once perform everything which is required...