Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lash nor to dance to Madame Pompadour's tune," said he. "This is not a fashionable nightclub or the anteroom of a palace. It is the parliament of a free people, and it should be made plain to the people here & now that this Chamber will not obey the commands of meddling old colonels, nor heed orders given in perfumed letters from the boudoir of any ruler...
...Simmons was only 18 when she played Ophelia. She plays the sane scenes with a baffled docility, a faint aura of fey, and a tender suggestion of nascent maturity. All this may go a long way toward persuading 20th Century audiences that a young girl really could so sedulously obey a meddlesome old father, and really could lose her mind when her estranged lover killed him. She plays the mad scenes as if she had never heard that Ophelia is one of Shakespeare's most shameless tearjerkers, and as if her lovely language and her cracked, ribald little songs...
...middle class consists mostly of fine, upstanding citizens who mind the conventions and obey the law. And what does it get them? Ulcers and trouble with their wives, say Drs. Jurgen Ruesch and Karl M. Bowman of the University of California's division of psychiatry...
...Union's newspaper stated that the prelude to the "lockout" was a strategy meeting of over 100 employees held in the basement of the Club. Workers' refusals to obey management demands that they halt the conclave led to an order to "go home...
Dzerzhinsky approved and did his best to carry out the directive of Grigory Zinoviev, then chairman of the Comintern: "If out of 100,000,000 population, 10,000,000 do not want to obey the Soviets, they have to be destroyed physically." Nobody will ever know how many hundreds of thousands were killed by Dzerzhinsky's CHEKA...