Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gathering wind, Caesar cast his eyes over the roomful of reporters. "How'm I doin', boys?" he crowed. Without pausing for reply, Caesar then admitted that there is one authority he would obey...
Rocketing Along. While the rocket is still moving slowly, its vertical flight is controlled by vanes of graphite which deflect the blast of gas. Later, as it gains speed, these are supplemented by four sets of vanes on the fins. These obey orders from gyroscope devices. They are pre-set on the ground; after the rocket has taken off, it cannot be deflected to a new course, or its aim corrected. All its nursemaids can do is cut off the power by radio. Last week they let it blast away for 59.4 seconds. Super-Vergeltungswaflen of the future, Army experts...
...long way from Walden Pond, but he writes with a Thoreau-like conviction that the only good life is the "natural" (non-city) life. And like Thoreau, who once spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax, Giono went to jail rather than obey his government's mobilization order in September...
Last week, as dogs returned from overseas and became available as replacements, the brass hats finally agreed to demobilize Mickey, a German shepherd, from the K-9 Corps. But he has been trained all this time to obey only one person. This week, at Fort Royal, Va., Mickey was being "de-agitated" and reoriented so that the Riedwigs could safely have him home again...
...Love the Machinery." Unions have been organized since the Communists took Kalgan. At the rubber factory, which makes bicycle tires and rubber boots and repairs automobile tires, I met the union chairman, Hsu Ping-yan, 48. He had posted this sign: "All members of the union must obey. . . . Keep everything in order and love the public's machinery and instruments as yourself. No smoking allowed. No rest in working time...