Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction . . . the first habit to be inculcated. . . . Both willingness and ability [to obey] may be made a habit . . . the child should never be allowed to argue, dispute or question orders. . . . Say 'I want to see if you can do what I tell you, instantly, when I tell you and just the way I tell you.' Then give the order: 'Stand...
Said Standard's Gallagher: "We should find means consistent with the welfare of our own country which will enable American business legally to compete abroad. American businessmen want to obey the law and they want to increase foreign trade. The only way they can do both is to assure them that when they obey the laws of other lands, they are not breaking the laws...
...This week seized another unit of Montgomery Ward & Co. (Hummer Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, Ill.). Reason for the seizure was the same as at Chicago: Montgomery Ward's refusal to obey a WLB order calling for union maintenance of membership. This time there was one difference: the Hummer Co., maker of propellers and carburetors, is a bona fide, though tiny (525 employes) war plant...
...then reviewed the steps leading up to Ward's refusal to obey the War Labor Board and sign a contract with the union. They had the right to refuse, the President said; sure, they had the right, just as any citizen has the right to tell a policeman who is going to arrest him that he doesn't want to go to jail. But the policeman has the right to take him there...
When orders came to abandon ship, few were prompt to obey. "Yes, sir," mumbled the Negro mess attendants manning an antiaircraft gun; they kept on firing. A19-year-old steward's mate with a broken leg dragged himself back to his post with them. Only when two planes had been shot down and the decks were awash did the men jump into the oily...