Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What gives the Communist armies their strength is that with them everyone is concerned with everything and everyone else and that a mere corporal feels he is in some way responsible for the conduct of the war. Apart from that, the men take everything seriously, obey orders to the letter, and economize without being asked on their rations and munitions because they feel it's their own war they're waging. If we're given a war which we look upon as ours, then...
...future misdeeds can be considered as violations of the existing injunction and carry a punishment of up to $5,000 a day. The FTC's Dixon concedes that the ruling is uniquely broad, but he also contends that "all we are ordering them to do is to obey the law." Admen are also concerned about Dixon's request for power temporarily to halt publication of any ads that he considers "out-and-out frauds"-before the advertisers have had a chance to plead their cases fully...
...does not wish to go against the will of the French nation, which is overwhelmingly for an Algerian settlement. De Gaulle guesses that when the French-F.L.N. treaty is signed, the S.A.O. might seize Algiers, Oran, and possibly Bone. He is betting that the army will then obey his orders to cordon off the S.A.O. rebel cities and choke them into submission...
...Administrative Council of the City University of New York has upheld the cancellation on the grounds that inviting a Communist to speak on campus would violate the University's obligation to "obey the laws of the state and the nation." The American Civil Liberties Union has prepared a brief contesting the Council's legal analysis of the problem, but the case has not yet been re-opened...
...third speaker at the meeting, Roger D. Fisher '43, professor of Law, emphasized the need to think through the problem of disarmament thoroughly. Getting the nations to obey disarmament agreements might best be solved by making the rules part of the internal laws of society, he suggested...