Word: obeying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Another member of the company, Lenny Lagunoy, 25, said Medina had told them to "kill everything that moves." "Well, hell," adds Meadlo, "I was just following the orders of my officer like any good soldier?what's the good of having officers if they've nobody to obey them?" More thoughtfully, he explains: "It just seemed like it was the natural thing to do at the time. My buddies had been getting killed or wounded. What it really was?it was just mostly revenge." Contends Corporal William Kern, who says he walked through My Lai when it was all over...
...transferred students will, however, have to obey the rules of the Houses they are living in. They will have the same interhouse privileges and responsibilities (such as taking bells) as the other resilents...
...split itself was triggered by a power struggle. Angered by Indira's attempts to oust them from control of the party machinery, the bosses took an unusual step. After frenzied discussions, they expelled Prime Minister Gandhi from Congress for refusing to obey party discipline. Accusing Indira of encouraging a "personality cult that is threatening democracy in the organization," they called upon the party to elect a new government leader...
...habits do not vanish overnight, however, and discipline is still next to godliness in the eyes of many Germans. According to one well-known barb, Germans obey the law because it's against the law not to do so. Yet there are signs that even in Germany, discipline is giving way to what Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf, who also happens to be the Free Democrats' leading thinker, calls "the individual search for happiness by people freed of the fetters of tradition and thrown into the affluent society." Writes Dahrendorf in Society and Democracy in Germany...
...being out of touch with Scripture may be surprised to find how much of the Catholic Mass is derived from the Old and New Testaments. Catholics, on the other hand, may gain a new respect for the earnest Biblical faith of Protestant heroes. Acts 5:29 ("We must obey God rather than men"), the commentary notes, inspired Martin Luther's famous refusal to recant-"to go against conscience is neither right nor safe"-as well as the defiance of Nazism by Germany's Confessing Church. Some examples of heroism are poignant: Quaker John Woolman, dying of smallpox, told...