Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1860s, where the Wolf and the Obey (pronounced obee) Rivers run together to make the Cumberland, Billy Hull moved with his bride, a Virginia girl named Elizabeth Riley, whose family had some Cherokee blood. Billy walked with a sidewise slouch. Even after he was rich he was "an ornery-dressin' fella." He often went to Nashville "wearin' no more than five dollars worth of clothes." Elizabeth was tall, dark, sweet-eyed. Their first home was a sheephouse; their first furniture some chestnut stumps for table and chairs; their first bed Elizabeth's riding-skirt filled with rushes...
...Columbus, third biggest of the Nazi merchant marine - tied up at Veracruz since debarking her passengers at Havana in September - to make a dash for it. When he received the order to sail home, Columbus' Captain Wilhelm Daehne had no choice but to obey, though he knew his chance of getting through was paper-thin. For weeks he trained two picked squads in the fine art of scuttling and firing ship...