Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reports were circulating in Russia that Roy Medvedev had left his job at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Moscow after the KGB (the Soviet secret police) had searched his apartment, confiscated his private papers, and issued a summons for him to appear for questioning-which he refused to obey. The police raid had the unintended effect of focusing public attention in the West on a major new work by Medvedev. Among the papers that were seized by the KGB agents was a 1,500-page typescript of the first comprehensive study of the Stalin era ever to come...
...sort of definition of operating net income is necessary before the law can ever really become an effective tool for keeping rents down. And, he added, "It is imperative that we get a new city manager--a good administrator who can deal with that sort of thing; who will obey the demands of the majority of the council, not disregard them like the present city manager...
...Jackson spent a year in Soledad. In his first four months, he was accused of seven violations of prison rules. When he came up for parole after the expiration of his minimum sentence, his prison record classified him as "surly and intractable." A bad nigger who "flatly refused to obey orders." Parole was denied and con A-63837 was transferred to San Quentin...
Seeking better working conditions, employees at a government desalination plant in Eilat recently tried a novel approach. They stayed on the job until they were so tired that they could no longer obey orders. The sleep-in failed, but it did focus attention on a brewing crisis in Israel. There have been so many strikes and demonstrations in the past few months that Premier Golda Meir has warned: "The situation is deteriorating into a rebellion, not by the Arabs but by our own hands...
Harkness dining regulations differ slightly from House meal practices, Kenbok said, and undergraduates must obey graduate meal contract rules when eating at the Commons. "There are no unlimited seconds here, for example," Kenbok said...