Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pusey should refuse to obey the subpoena-which is notarized by a member of the Massachusetts bar-the defense will charge him with contempt of court, Ryan said yesterday...
...must obey our laws, both on and off campus...
...less direct way, the narrative also tells a great deal about the metamorphosis of Chomsky as a political analyst. In his earlier American Power and the New Mandarins. Chomsky's language was calm, restrained, almost antiseptically reasoned; he was, one feels, especially careful to obey the intellectual ground rules of a political world-view which was otherwise alien and unacceptable to him. In At War With Asia, he rejects that constraint, and his language is less careful, wilder, and in many ways far more moving...
Marginal Seats. Of 435 congressional districts, only 69 are considered marginal-won by 5% or less of the total vote m the last election. Obey squeaked through with a mere 51.5% in a 1969 special election to choose a successor to Melvin Laird, who had resigned to become Secretary of Defense. It is in such close races that the tilt of the next House of Representatives will be determined...
Issues Clear. Confined to Washington during the week by House business, Obey, 32, is counterattacking in person on weekends, and otherwise via 30-and 60-second TV spots. The commercials show Obey in a chat with a rural constituent, stressing the evils of "corporate and hobby farming," advocating strict curbs on cheese imports, arguing the need for better health services. Obey, an unabashed liberal, tells his constituents that only by curtailing the flow of billions of tax dollars to the development of weapons systems, only by getting U.S. troops out of Viet Nam, only by limiting outlays for space adventures...