Word: obeyed
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...shook hands with Elistratov, remarked: "I'm sorry it had to happen this way." Said Sergeant Elistratov, with tears in his eyes, before he crossed into the Red zone: "I'm sorry our two people can't get together. I'm a soldier and I obey orders...
...court and in his column, Lawyer Lyons said that he would not obey any such order, portentously proclaimed that relations between columnist and tipster are as sacred as the relations between "client and lawyer, physician and patient, confessor and clergyman." (Snapped Lyons' fellow columnist Walter Winchell: "Let him go to jail. It will give me a big laugh...
...Thou shalt obey the directives of thy organizations...
Pleaded Falkenhausen: "During my interrogations by the Gestapo I was reproached with having been too mild in Belgium; I was supposed to have arrested too few and released them too soon." He admitted that under his regime there were arrests, shootings, deportations. "A German general, like any soldier, must obey his chiefs." But, he said, "I employed every means to frustrate, modify or alleviate the orders and instructions which opposed my views. Obviously, I could frustrate them completely [only] in a few cases. But I always tried to do the best I could under the circumstances ... St. Augustine has written...
...knowing what rules he had to obey, Rowan managed to stay out of trouble. He dressed well in Tennessee, knowing that good clothes bring a Negro better treatment that far north. But when he got to some of the small towns in the Deep South, he changed to rough clothes. Says Rowan: "I knew if I didn't, they would think I was uppity...