Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the press, cables, radio and TV. Those who protested too loudly were summarily arrested. On the evening of the first day, retired Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, who ran unsuccessfully for President last year with Goulart as his running mate, telephoned War Minister Denys and demanded that he obey the constitution. Denys refused...
...that is suffering with a bad tumor-God wants you to send in your request! And that woman that is sitting there by the radio and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Oh. God, don't doubt this broadcast. Be sure that you help me now. Obey the voice of God in you for giving me as much as you can, and God will give back, and if you send in $5 or more, request the beautiful nativity Bible. Oh-it is such a beautiful Bible, with maroon binding. 1.152 pages...
...fight his country's colonial wars. Jean de Larsan comes from a family of soldiers. Like many a French officer, he saw war as a duty, a form of chivalry, a mystique in which obedience was the key to honor. Now he finds that he can no longer obey. He had been a genuine hero, one of the few French officers who fought the Germans to the finish. Escaped from prison camp, he went on to fight until the end of World War II and believed his commander, who assured him: "Come on, Larsan...
...identified or an innocent acquaintance charged with espionage. He can never talk shop with his wife or pass on gossip that could reveal a colleague's foibles and lead to blackmail. With friends, he must listen closely to others' conversation, be continually alert to give or obey the service's traditional signal to change the subject: a long, pointed look at the ceiling. In time, the naturally communicative, libertarian American citizen tends to react to constant surveillance with moods of black depression...
...some answers to great questions about cities of the past, will these solutions prove relevant to contemporary urban problems? This will be one of the questions that the members of the conference will have to consider. Is there any continuity in the history of the city? Do contemporary cities obey the laws of change of past cities? Are the problems of urban industrial civilization completely unique...