Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week, the day after graduation. On Sundays he attended Episcopal services in the Academy's beautiful Gothic chapel. (Separate services are held for Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists.) Two years of this grueling testing and training marked him as a man who was able to command, willing to obey, eager to serve, quick to learn, honest, strong, able - in sum, a good soldier. For these reasons he was chosen First Captain...
...Germans like to work and obey; the Italians like to have a good time and enjoy life. That's why nazism worked as a national policy in Germany while fascism failed in Italy...
Military police moved into Broadway bars, began hauling soldiers away from their drinks while delighted sailors raised glasses and jeered happily. The next day the Navy spoke too-obey the midnight curfew...
...Army's troubled history of race relations, an army court-martial wrote one more entry. The court found four Negro WACs guilty of refusing to obey a superior's command...
...Coach Ray Meyer was hard pressed for a center. Meyer drove his clumsy recruit through dozens of daily dozens, interspersed with rope-skipping, shadow-boxing and whatever else might develop coordination until Mikan cried: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Slowly Mikan's muscles learned to obey. The onetime marble-shooting champion of Will County, Ill. eventually got the hang of shooting baskets with a marble champion's sharp accuracy, upped his per-game scoring average from 14 points in 1943 to a dazzling 23 points this year...