Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondents figured he would obey the impulse to salvage something in November, and that when the time came, he'd be off like Brer Rabbit lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity-just a sailin' down de big road...
...Ukrainian report charged that on June 14 a Greek civilian and six soldiers had sneaked across the Albanian border to whitewash the pyramidal frontier marker No. 23. Said the report: "Our patrol of Trustoniku ordered him not to whitewash it, but as the civilian did not obey, our soldiers fired at him. After an exchange of shots lasting for 30 minutes, the Greek soldiers withdrew to their post of Llapanica, wherefrom they started machine-gunning our soldiers. Our patrol did the same. There were no casualties...
Superior Cushion. Another minor incident made a familiar crackle. When Murray Garsson's son Captain Joseph H. Garsson-of the Chemical Warfare Service, of course-was court-martialed and convicted for refusing to obey an order to emplace his 4.2 mortar company on the battlefield, it was Andy May who had turned up to lend a helping hand...
...Pure Ethic. The New Testament, says Dr. Scott, seems to "waver" between two basic ideas-that each man is an individual soul who must know and obey the will of God, and that each man must submerge his individuality in the great human brotherhood of which he forms a part. The Roman Catholic Church emphasized the social concept of Christianity; the Protestant Reformation reasserted the right of the individual to justify himself, in Paul's words, by faith alone. The truth, says Presbyterian Dr. Scott, is that Christ was never concerned with man-in-the-mass, but with showing...
...porkchop demands his Communist associates had added some ideological parsley. It was high time "to halt the drive of shipowners . . . towards a new and more devastating world war." So Joe said blithely: "Hit the bricks June 15," knowing that 73,000 East Coast seamen would obey...