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Word: obey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country would be ruled by a "military council for national salvation." Speaking in a tired voice, he said, "Our country is at the verge of an abyss. The state structure has ceased operating." Solidarity's leaders, he charged, "threaten us with the use of force. They no longer obey the law. Everyone is on strike. They call for confrontation with the Reds. We had to do something before they thrust us into civil war . . . We have to come out of the crisis by ourselves by our hands. History would never forgive us if we failed." And so, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Crackdown on Solidarity | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...read his Bible again. And soon he was speaking out so loud that the pathetic "men" running his nation had not choice but to kill him. The day before he died, Romero said this from the pulpit--"It is time that you come to your senses and obey your conscience...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Beyond El Salvador | 12/17/1981 | See Source »

...result, Epps is now acting to insure that no House steps outside the policy and that Harvard is not susceptible to charges of flouting the law. When the House masters meet together next week, to review alcohol policy, they will almost certainly emerge with renewed pledges to obey the no-alcohol-at-open-parties rule. This, time, they agree, Epps will make sure they mean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nothin' but a Party | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...afford first-class housing is dwindling. The median price of a new home has gone from $20,000 in 1965 to $70,000 in 1981. The traditional budget formula said that a family should spend no more than one-quarter of gross income on housing. If they obey that rule, less than 10% of Americans can afford a median-priced house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Downsizing an American Dream | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...omission of Dr. Arif Hussain's criminal background raises questions beyond those of medical ethics. By showing themselves more willing to bail out a friend than to obey the moral rules of their profession, the doctors called into question the legitimate uses of influence and revealed the kind of mentality which can be bred in a heavily male environment. Whether the recommending doctors felt that the nurse who was raped had "asked for it," whether they thought their colleague had "learned his lesson," whether they merely forgot to mention the conviction, or whether--as one doctor said last week--they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Doctors, Their Letters | 9/29/1981 | See Source »

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