Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freighter City of Rome loomed over the battered and sinking hulk of the submarine. Commander Dobson cried his orders. Every man on the submarine snapped to obey. The Rome backed water. "Throw me a line!" Water streamed down the open conning tower hatch. Eight men asleep in the torpedo room catapulted from their beds. The wireless operator pressed his key frenziedly. Water, heavy and pitiless, swung open doors, sloughed about carelessly. "For God's sake, throw a line to us!" Six men on duty in the engine room reached for levers, were whirled away by the inrushing torrent...
...instant later Matasaro Namba's worn impassive face lighted with an elation not to be suppressed. Gravely he informed the royal messenger that the Nambas would obey as always the Prince Regent's will. They would unbar their gates, allow their children to romp once more in the sunshine. They would resume the normal lives of loyal Japanese. In token of their entire release from all humiliation, they would abandon the irredeemably besmirched name of Namba, assume that of Kurokawa...
...great has their influence become that, on entering his junta, a Spanish officer ordinarily takes oath that he will obey his immediate superiors, even to the extent of refusing promotion by the military authorities at Madrid, except in the regular line of junta seniority...
...rifle. For hours thousands of Fascists howled for Zaniboni's blood. Then Signor Mussolini?well knowing that the rifle had been trained upon a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi whence he had been scheduled to speak?stepped dramatically upon that balcony and cried: "Fascists, No Revenge! You will obey! You will take no revenge upon Zaniboni, because I wish...
...organ played the usual selection from Lohengrin. Dr. Hugh Birckhead, the Bruce pastor from Baltimore, performed the marriage service. Secretary Mellon then stepped back to the pew across from the President. The bridal couple advanced to the altar and Bishop Freeman of the Cathedral said the wedding service, including "Obey...