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Word: obey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Predictably, Communist General Secretary Gus Hall announced that the party will refuse to obey the order to register. In Washington, Attorney General Robert Kennedy said that the deadline is Aug. 9, and that the party will be fined $10,000 for every day thereafter that it fails to comply with the order. Communist leaders may also be fined and sentenced to five years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Blows Against Communism | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...money from the rich to try to educate the poor, who don't want any education, are puzzled by it, and once they get it, such as they can absorb, use it only to read confession and detective magazines. So I say, teach the boobs nothing, except to obey their superiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summa Contra Mencken | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Nkosi also condemned the detailed police regulations which the Negro South Africans are required to obey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speakers Discuss Defense, Apartheid Problems | 4/22/1961 | See Source »

...exemplified the characteristic that Germans call Kadaverge-horsam, i.e., the unquestioning obedience that enables even a corpse to do what it is told. If he had refused to obey Hitler, says Eichmann with an unaccustomed ring of truth, "I would have been not only a scoundrel but a despicable pig!" This, in effect, will be the argument of Eichmann's defense attorney, West Germany's Dr. Robert Servatius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Man in the Cage | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...only against the Russians. Nothing came of the plan, and Hungary's Jews were shipped to the gas chambers. With the Reich visibly collapsing. Heinrich Himmler thought he might save himself by using the remaining Jews as hostages. He ordered the killing stopped. For once. Eichmann refused to obey an order. He sent word to Commandant Hoess: "No one will walk out of Auschwitz. There is only one way they will leave-through the smokestacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Man in the Cage | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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