Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about half the Brethren have left the sect rather than obey Taylor; one Tory M.P. has heard so many tales of hardship from his constituents that last month he asked for a Home Office investigation of the sect. But difficult as their new way of life may be, the rest of the Brethren have followed Taylor, convinced that to live with the Lord means not to live with other...
...sight of Farmer Austin Stottlemyer's 50 handsome Holstein cows moseying down the main street of Antietam Furnace might have seemed properly bucolic to a casual visitor. But not to the natives of the little (pop. 51) Maryland village. Stottlemyer was careful to obey the state law-one farm hand walked in front of the herd and one behind-but the villagers complained that the cows obstructed traffic, trampled flower beds, and left a trail of manure that was not only tracked into houses but sometimes caused children to slip and fall perilously close to passing cars. On their...
...faintly menacing breed of children's crusaders marshaling the anti-parent instinct into a kind of teen-age Viet Cong. Later the diagnosis changed; the real rock addict was pronounced a "rhythmic obedient" whose craving for the big beat was only the expression of his frustrated wish to obey mother. Such findings were hardly helpful to the record industry in its search for a solid money-making groove. And then a new type of rock song began to climb the charts. Now it is the rock fan's wish to die that is supposed to account...
...Orchestras obey this law so piously that Beethoven and Brahms are rarely played outside of the basketball season...
Baron von Novotny. The economy may be chronically short of workers, but it supports a Parkinsonian proliferation of officials. There are 29 "technical" specialists for every 100 production workers in industry as a whole; in some heavy-engineering plants, two out of three employees are "experts." Czech clerks dully obey detailed instructions that minutely specify every routine from stowing their rubber stamps to writing form letters with "psychologically effective opening and closing phrases...