Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, late in the spring student trouble began. The original incident was small: a freshman named Maxwell refused to recite his Greek lessons. His instructor, Mr. Durkin, reacting to this provocation with speed and strength, hotly demanded that Maxwell obey. Maxwell adamantly refused, stating that he did not recognize his Instructor's authority to command obedience. The next day Maxwell was called to President Quincy's office to explain the incident; two days later he again was called before the President, and when he left the second time he had requested permission to withdraw from the University. If in those...
...instance of the expulsion of Barnwell, and calling the incident unjust, showed that the source of the injustice was President Quincy. The statement began with a long justification of the actions of the Junior class. "It is undoubtedly the duty of those who are connected with any institution to obey its laws as long as they continue as its members," began the Junior class publication. "But when the measures of those who are at its head become such as appears to them unjustified and oppressive, if open resistance be improper, they have, at least, the right of submitting their cause...
...former television newscaster from Wausau, felt so good, in fact, that he rather imprudently billed his campaign as "a referendum on the Nixon Administration." That was hardly the case, but his coattail reference may well haunt the G.O.P. While Chilsen conducted a languid campaign, Democratic State Assemblyman David Obey (pronounced Oh-bee) ran at full throttle all the way and edged his opponent, 63,592 votes...
Taxes and Milk. Intellectual and seemingly inexhaustible, Obey, 30, healed party wounds that have festered since the Chicago convention, and got popular Senator Gaylord Nelson to stump for him in eleven of the district's 15 counties. He had two important factors going for him. One was that reapportionment shifts had cut into Republican strength-a fact that went all but unnoticed last year because Laird had amassed 64.5% of the vote. Another was Republican Governor Warren Knowles' proposal to balance a $25 million budget deficit by raising taxes, a move endorsed by Chilsen. The day before...
Chilsen later conceded gamely that "there was overconfidence from Washington to Wausau." Overconfidence was certainly not one of Obey's deficiencies during the race-or later, for that matter. The morning after his victory, Obey was at the gates of the Wausau Paper Mills plant in nearby Brokaw at dawn to thank workers for their votes...