Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt accepted the committee's subpoena but gave no indication whether it would be honored. An aide said that Nixon considered the subpoena "incredible." If the White House does not obey it, however, Committee Chairman Sam Ervin has vowed to ask the courts to force the Administration to comply...
SUDDENLY people are listening to him. President Nixon goes on television telling the public that the Energy Crisis has arrived and that we must make sacrifices. People listen and, even more astonishing, obey. Liberals and conservatives, industrialists, ecologists, moralists, Malthusians--all have gone along with Nixon's plea for patriotic frugality. Lights are switched off with a fanatical passion, room temperatures drop, and motorists creep along the highways at 50 miles per hour, or even 45 or 40 among the more patriotic. Energy--that substance that Einstein told us is so abundant that a tiny bit of matter gets multiplied...
Nixon said that he had "voluntarily waived privilege" on his tapes; what he did was obey two court directives ordering him to yield up the tapes. He said that he hoped a way could be found to get what is on the tapes out to the public; the court had already advised him that he was free to make public the tapes and any other material at once...
...maybe it is from looking up at the huge stands, which could so easily be filled with hundreds of spectators. At any rate, some tiny muscles in our stomachs and necks and abdomens hear Mummy talking and obey: "Do hold your head up higher, dear, and pull in your stomach a little, that's a good girl...
...committee for freedom of the Press, a Washington-based group that offers legal aid to endangered colleagues, said last week that the high court's refusal to hear the case "means that any judge can order a newspaper not to publish any news items, and the newspaper must obey that gag for as long as it takes to appeal. By that time the item may no longer be newsworthy." The dispute's background bears out that bleak interpretation. In 1971 Federal District Judge E. Gordon West ordered journalists covering the public hearing of a conspiracy case against...