Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your suggestion [July 13] that a federal law be enacted to discourage legal ownership of firearms would realistically affect only those who legally seek to own firearms, since criminals, by the definition, neither respect nor obey the law. The true issue is the prevention of the criminal misuse of firearms. I most strongly feel that your ill-conceived idea will never become law, but if it should, in my considered opinion, it would not be upheld by the Supreme Court, since some rather basic constitutional provisions would have been violated...
...such as the paths and parking lots of shopping centers. Peaceful participants can march as far as they like, stretch out the line of march, chant, and even subject pedestrians to minor inconveniences without being penalized. Pickets who remain standing instead of walking cannot be arrested for refusing to obey police orders to keep moving, unless the police have reason to believe that the demonstrators are blocking traffic or preventing pedestrians from normal movement...
Catalyst for Volpe's startling proposal was Douglas T. Snarr, the most active exponent of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965. To obey the law, Snarr, who himself owns 1,300 outdoor signs in the Rocky Mountain area, last year became a one-man lobby against billboards (TIME, Oct. 31). Although the Senate approved a measure in November to pay billboard owners to remove their own signs, Snarr's crusade had hardly begun. Idealistic, insistent, resplendent in purple suits and iguana cowboy boots, Snarr seized every chance to plead his cause. This winter, he astonished politicians by convincing...
...brain, alcohol unshackles the primordial beast. In Drunken Comportment, published by Aldine Press, two U.C.L.A. social scientists challenge this venerable theory. Intoxication, say Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton, has rules equally as strict as sobriety. Once they are mastered, the drunk strives conscientiously, and usually successfully, to obey them...
...Antioch and M.I.T., anti-war protest took on new forms. Antioch students have offered sanctuary to National Guardsmen who do not want to obey orders. M.I.T. students used brooms to clean up Central Square in hopes of earning support for the anti-war campaign through good will...