Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas City plant, and threatened to affect Ward's Detroit stores. Hurriedly, WLB appealed, as usual, to President Roosevelt to enforce its order. This time, there came no statement from Chairman Avery, as there had a year and a half ago, that Ward's would "respectfully obey" a Presidential order. Now one Ward official asked blandly: "What power has the President over a retail store...
Foreigners in Chungking listen to Kuomintang complaints that the Communists: 1) maintain their own government, army and currency, collect their own taxes, refuse to obey Chungking's mandates; 2) are more interested in extending their political sphere than in fighting Japan; 3) have exceeded their agreed-to military strength...
...drilling with the book and listening to the records. The disks give an English word or phrase, then the Chinese equivalent, then are silent so the student can imitate the Chinese, then reiterate the Chinese. The set of 25 records covers most fundamental situations. They should help soldiers to obey a Chinese maxim which Fang loves: Chien shih-mo jen shuo shih-mo hua (Whomever you see, talk his language...
Elegant Form. It was Ole's life and character which inspired Ibsen with the lurid idea of Peer Gynt. Born in 1810, brought up by prosperous parents in the little provincial fishing town of Bergen, Ole Bornemann Bull flatly refused to obey his childhood violin teachers. At 23 he was playing quartets in many prominent European salons, carousing and dueling on the side. In Paris he met 14-year-old Félicie Alexandrine Villeminot, daughter of a French official. After four years he married her. Then he spent years trying to convince her that she should live permanently...
Last week in Cairo, King Peter and the rest of his Cabinet in Exile waited patiently. Over the radio the 20-year-old claimant to an overturned throne in Bel grade addressed his subjects, urged them to "obey Mihailovich and other national leaders of your resistance to the enemy and refrain from internal struggle." It was a long step for Peter to mention other leaders; he still could not bring himself to call the Partisans by name...