Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program relies too much on federal direction, too little on the forces of the free market. Rule 1 in energy conservation is that while people may for a while obey presidential exhortations to set thermostats at 65°, they will not cut back on energy use in the long run unless waste is made prohibitively expensive. Rule 2 is that energy companies will not invest the huge sums needed in costly domestic exploration for oil and gas unless they are assured of a profitable return. The best way to follow both rules would be to enact a relatively speedy dismantling...
...Obey That Impulse...
...affluent society grows more infantile day by day. I-want-it-now is characteristic of our bank robbers, muggers, embezzlers and kidnap-extortionists. Obey-that-impulse is a feature of rapists and murderers. Obviously no one is going to blame the credit-card industry for the upsurge of violence and criminality, but to the extent that opinion leaders endorse the philosophy of immediate, uninhibited gratification of impulse, they are helping to create the climate in which young people who cannot get credit cards demand-and seize-that same impulse gratification...
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey...
...participated in the Viet Nam War. Since soldiers are so often accorded the benefit of the doubt, why is the same courtesy so infrequently extended to war resisters? Why do so many of us look upon them with contempt and suspicion, denouncing them for their adamant refusal to obey edicts that countermand what should be the most binding of all edicts: the Sixth Commandment...