Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was clear and the Congress track was fast on the afternoon when Gandhi's first spring put him out in front. He urged the Congress guiding committee to approve a resolution in favor of delaying civil disobedience while pressing for independence by negotiation. The committee obeyed. Saint Gandhi thanked them in a speech bristling with humility: "I am called Mahatma, but I am an ordinary man. I have blundered and committed mistakes. ... I am perhaps the poorest general any army ever had. My only wealth is your love. If you don't like me, remove...
...heroically wounded in War I. Last fortnight Mrs. Fuller-Maitland arrived in France with six assistants, including a former parlormaid, to make all ready for her main force to join the B. E. F. One of her first acts was to post a list of rules which ATS must obey at the front...
...matters because he had achieved the major political triumph of persuading former Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata to demean himself to be the Premier's own secretary; nor about military matters because the Emperor had taken the spectacular, unprecedented step of calling in General Hata to bid the Army obey the Cabinet...
...Cancer is an abnormal growth in that it does not obey the rule of harmony of normal growth," declared Grantley W. Taylor, instructor in Surgery and Surgeon in the Huntington Hospital, yesterday afternoon in one of the lectures of the medicine series...
...millions of words in articles, memoirs (unfinished) and private correspondence. And he has never given up hope for a Hohenzollern restoration in Germany. As late as January 1930 he was quoted as saying: "The people will call back their Kaiser." Although Wilhelm II has had to be careful to obey the no-politics order of the Dutch Government, his ambitious wife, Princess Hermine, has worked consistently for restoration. She has traveled, given parties and charity bazaars, founded a society to help German Imperial Army officers and officers' widows. She reportedly helped the Nazis financially, talked to Nazi bigwigs...