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Word: obey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the Fund for Animals and the Animal Defense Council, which got an injunction barring the assault. The Navy can now obey the court, appeal the order, or decide that it has better things to do than make martyrs out of goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Americana, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Smolin cites student-Faculty relations as another problem in the GSAS. "There is not nearly enough attention from professors and thesis advisers, especially in the humanities where you haven't proved yourself until your work is published in your last year," Smolin explains. "Invariably Harvard professors obey the tradition of ignoring students," says Susan Napier, a graduate student in East Asian studies. But Smolin feels the administration is aware of the problem. He says his discussions with Keenan reveal that Keenan is "genuinely concerned with the problem." The decreased size of the school may lead to more Faculty-student contact...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Perils of the Perpetual Scholar | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...bargaining power; he initiates only one decision?to see a doctor. The sellers (doctors and hospitals) then take over; they decide what services the patient needs, and do not ask but order him to buy. Unable to diagnose his own illness, the patient has little choice but meekly to obey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Cost: What Limit? | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...reaching for his pants, which makes him angry. She questions him and he says, "You make the gesture of a whore." He caresses her for days but refuses to make love to her. "Hilda felt that the female in her was being taught to submit to the male, to obey his wishes. She felt that he was still punishing her for the gesture she had made..." Finally one day she breaks the heel of her shoe and he has to carry her. Apparently excited by her vulnerability, he holds out no longer. She becomes "... the woman whose submission he first...

Author: By Suzanna Rodell, | Title: It's Worse the Second Time | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

Fearing violence, Yazdi quickly ordered the release of Taleghani's relatives, but the militiamen refused to obey either his command or the instructions of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. Not until the following morning were the prisoners, who had been kicked and beaten, released. Taleghani, who had pledged to hold Qarazi until the arrests had been explained to his satisfaction, then freed the komiteh member. Qarazi was arrested on the spot at Yazdi's order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Squabble Among the Holy Men | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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