Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler was introduced to a shapely, blue-eyed, indubitably Aryan Hamfran named Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, mother of four. Five years later she was Reichsfrauenführerin (leader of German women), entrusted with the job of making German women fit and productive mates for Nazi men. Her credo: "We obey unconditionally." Her 1939 Mother's Day message said: "We bring the fruits of motherhood to the Führer and say to him: 'It is the best that we have, therefore it belongs...
...student "shall obey his teacher. . . shall care for him, feed him, and put him to bed after washing his teacher's feet. The student shall avoid honey, meat, sleep in the daytime. . . shoes, love, anger, and the gaze and touch of women." His bed, according to Spartan Sorokin, must be a plank, and during his years in training he shall not see a woman, for "women make men soft...
...nucleus] with a cloud of mosquitoes [i.e., electrons] buzzing around it." Sir Arthur Eddington confessed that he pictured electrons as little red balls. But physicists have long since stopped trying to visualize the atom. As understood today the electron has become almost a dreamlike abstraction. It does not obey the laws of cause and effect. Nevertheless, even in quantum mechanics, the abstruse mathematics of the atom, the electron is assigned a constant electric charge, e, and a constant mass, m. Thus it becomes a charged particle of some sort...
Sidestepping the issue of passive resistance as skillfully as a temple dancer, Saint Gandhi ordered his followers to obey laws and cooperate with the Government while he visited the British Viceroy to "seek permission to preach nonparticipation in war." Nonparticipation, he warned his followers, was no prelude to mass civil disobedience, but fearing that without some action to push Indian independence the masses would desert him, he compromised: "I don't want to order civil disobedience. I favor individual disobedience." The wily Saint knew that individual disobedience, lacking organization, would amount to nothing. The independence movement, he admitted, could...
...sales tax, enforces Government-fixed prices of all food and clothing, distributes free milk to Fascist babies, supports orphanages that are brimful of war's victims, children. Serrano is also responsible for the dissatisfaction of many Spanish businessmen with the new regime. If they do not obey Government orders they are taken out and shot as dead as Leftists. In foreign policy Strong Man Serrano follows his good friend, Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano...