Word: obey
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...yourself. And we thought that the Advo was just a pompous gas-bag inflated with the noxious byproducts of effete overeducation. But the Arbiter Elegentiae has spoken and it has left the dullard and unwashed Harvardian masses to listen and obey...
...with less caution and more saber-rattling. The calls from members of Congress for a full scale invasion are as disturbing as the sanctions are useless. "We ought to go in with a large enough force to take them literally overnight, put those thugs in jail," said Rep David Obey (D-Wisconsin), in a gross miscalculation of how long it would take to subdue and pacify a nation of over six million people. Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Maryland), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said he is pleased that President Bill Clinton has put the military option "on the table...
...urged the A.N.C. to reduce the voting age to 14, but his colleagues refused. Once he has lost, he publicly speaks in favor of the position he opposed. "I sometimes come to the National Executive Committee with an idea and they overrule me," he recently observed. "And I obey them, even when they are wrong," he added with a smile. "That is democracy...
...order to obey God's dietary laws, Jews may not eat pork, or any other meat that was once attached to cloven hooves...
Choosing an aggressive liberal activist, House Democrats voted Wisconsin's David Obey as the new head of the powerful Appropriations Committee...