Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action in 1970. Its rich dairyland country increasingly feels the encroachments of large factories. Its economy is lagging. Taxes are high. Republican Andre LeTendre is emphasizing his support of Richard Nixon (and the Green Bay Packers) as he asks his neighbors to send him to Congress. Democrat David Obey is there now and wants to stay...
...silent reminder that last year he divorced his first wife Alta after 37 years of marriage. The embittered Alta, 57, at first threatened to enter the race against him, but confined herself to warning voters not to trust his campaign promises because "he promised to love, cherish and obey when he married me, and he broke that vow." The divorce settlement gave Alta the family string of weekly newspapers. He kept their $200,000 mansion in Huntsville, complete with a $100,000 mortgage. It has been vacated by Faubus, who moved to Harrison as general manager of Dogpatch, U.S.A...
...instance, and by watching the trainer place the green on the blue and vice versa. Sarah eventually came to understand the preposition's purpose. This was one of her first sentences, condensed to a three-symbol command: Green goes on red. Before long, Sarah knew how to obey commands in as many as twelve possible color combinations at an impressive accuracy rate...
...fifth book of short stories, he writes of Americans, but they are emigres for whom Hell is a city very much like New York. Physical inhabitants of Mr. Sammler's planet, they are nevertheless very much at home in a Kantian world where space and time obey the appellate court of perception. A woman enters a Manhattan cafeteria and sees Hitler. Later, after her death, she herself is seen, strolling Broadway. A mischievous editor sends an obscure philosopher love letters from a mythical heiress-and the joke blossoms into a great tragedy. A chimney sweep is knocked...
...expelled, dismissed, or denied enrollment after October 29, 1969, for refusal to obey a lawful regulation or order of [the] Institution, which refusal, in the opinion of Institution, contributed to the disruption of the activities, administration or classes of Institution...