Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Glorious Things of Thee Art Spoken, the princess strolled down the aisle on her father's arm. Behind her followed her only attendants: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 9, daughter of Princess Margaret, and Anne's brother Prince Edward, also 9. She promised "to love, cherish and to obey." The groom slipped onto her finger a wedding band that had been made from a nugget of Welsh gold from which had come wedding rings for the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret...
...perceived a principle that could not be compromised even to placate the uncertain demands of international security and domestic harmony," Bok said. "It was a principle worth defending, even by refusing to obey a presidential order." Cox's decision to surrender office rather than relinquish principle was made "in order to press its importance vividly on the mind of the nation," said Bok. "In retrospect, it appears he has taught us more in Government service than he could have hoped to achieve in those Harvard class rooms where we welcome him back with admiration...
...Saigon government could not stand without U.S. aid. An aid cutoff would have an important but not decisive influence on events in the South. Siphan said that as economic conditions worsen and the morale of the populace and the army sinks, the people will force President Thieu to obey the peace agreement...
Nixon gave a long answer about why he had fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox: because Cox had refused to obey his orders. But he said not one word about why he had then totally reversed himself and had given up the tapes just as Cox had urged. No questioner then got the floor to say, "Wait a minute, Mr. President, what logic explains producing a governmental convulsion of this magnitude and then announcing amid the carnage that you agree after...
...stressed the morally instructive implications of Cox's actions: "The University must be sensitive to everything that bears upon the moral education of its members. It was a principle worth defending, even by refusing to obey a Presidential order, in order to press its importance vividly on the mind of the nation...