Word: obey
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Under Japan's old Confucian and Meiji codes, the role of the Japanese woman was well defined and faithfully followed: to obey her father, then her husband and finally, in old age, her sons. Even those women who make up roughly one- third of the Japanese work force have been treated as a species apart. They have been banned by law from working more than two hours of overtime in any day or, with a few exceptions, past 10 at night, and allowed monthly menstrual leave with full pay in certain strenuous jobs. All that changed last week when, after...
Boff insisted last week, "I am not a Marxist," and said he would obey the order. One official at the Vatican's doctrinal congregation explained that the directive of silence was issued so that Boff might rethink his ideas. Said this prelate of the Boff-Vatican confrontation: "If after a year he maintains the same point of view, then the struggle will be fierce...
...Africa's 23 million blacks. The church is a rigidly conservative sect that forbids its members to smoke, drink or disobey the law. As its Bishop, Barnabas Lekganyane, 31, put it last week, "It is not for the individual to judge the law, it is for the individual to obey...
Participants in the project include Rosa Parks, whose refusal to obey the Jim Crow laws sparked the 1955 Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Muriel S. Snowden, co-founder and director of Freedom House, a human rights advocacy institution in Roxbury, also took part in the program...
...entry fee, he is assured of up to $250 in bail bonding against crimes he might commit. He is required to be at the American Legion post at 7 a.m. with his horse, to be in costume and to wear a mask. One of the twelve rules he must obey is that he "shall not possess nor consume any beverage except as dispensed from the liquor wagon." All day he will ride through the country collecting chickens, rice and vegetables for a gumbo the womenfolk will cook back in town. The column will be halted frequently for beer and boiled...