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...induction into the order. His arm was ritually slashed and his blood sucked by all the members present. With his wound still throbbing, he took the oath: "I swear by our noble ancestors, the Spanish Knights Osso, Mastrosso and Carcagnosso, to be faithful to our honored society, to obey its code and to fulfill all duties imposed on me unto death...
Something Special. Both the President and Dulles were wroth, because in trying to guard against Childe Harold's famous flights of fancy, they had given him specific written instructions on how to proceed. Summoned home, he got no table-pounding from Dulles, but was sharply admonished to obey orders. Moreover he was told pointedly that Veteran State Department Careerman Julius Holmes, onetime second man in the London embassy, would soon join him as an adviser...
This excellence was certainly not moral. Nobody was concerned about the goodness of undergraduates. Indeed, the University required only that they keep out of trouble with the police, and that they obey a certain minimum of administrative regulations most of which had to do with two national preoccupations: money and sex. Bills must be payed immediately and girls must never be used overtime in rooms...
...continuing to threaten the Negro, he could be held in civil contempt. At his contempt hearing he would not have the right to a jury trial-a key point in the program. If found guilty, he could be jailed until he purged himself of the contempt by agreeing to obey the injunction...
...unshakable determination to live according to their own bleak code. After World War I, the Canadian government set out to homogenize its alien population groups, and the Mennonite settlements in Saskatchewan and Manitoba were told that their children would have to attend Canadian schools. Stubbornly refusing to obey, the German-speaking Mennonites, relatives of the plain folk of Pennsylvania and direct, inbred descendants of the Germanic fishermen who migrated from the Frisian Islands 400 years ago, began to search for a new homeland...