Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fertig and his men were rank amateurs at the start. After Corregidor fell, U.S. units left on Mindanao were ordered to surrender. A few officers and men refused to obey that order. By twos and threes they slipped into the jungle, as did several American civilians and some Filipino soldiers and constabulary. At the same time the more warlike local tribes, including the Moslem Moros, whose mountains the Americans had more or less pacified, dug their weapons out of the thatch and resumed their ancestral feuding, bushwhacking Japanese as a useful sideline. But there was only hostility among the rival...
...goal of education and culture." The declaration states that the churches must be willing to share in the suffering of those "who have been deprived of their rights," and that "we act in disobedience if we remain silent when power is abused and we are not prepared to obey God more than humans...
...CHARLESTON, S.C. Police arrested 123 Negro demonstrators as they marched through downtown Charleston. The Negroes had paraded every day for a week without incident. But this time, police said, they had blocked traffic and refused to obey orders to move on. Later 17 sit-in demonstrators were arrested and charged with trespass...
...graduate, signed by the Red Sox in 1959 for a $20,000 bonus, Radatz sulked at first when he was assigned to the bullpen. "Everybody wants to be a starter," he says. "But I finally realized that the only way I was going to make the majors was to obey orders. If they wanted me to be a starter now, I'd regard it as a demotion. Being a relief man pays good...
There was no violence, no scuffling and no tension. The senior law-enforcement officer present explained to the Negro leaders the meaning of the court order and requested that they obey the court. Upon their refusal, he informed them that they were under arrest, whereupon the entire group of demonstrators (220) marched quietly to the county jail...