Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advocate. The President does not use the same methods as Franklin D. Roosevelt used to carry out his program. Mr. Eisenhower, for example, would never go down to Georgia, as Roosevelt did, and tell the people of that state that they should "dump" Senator George, because he refused to obey F.D.R. and pack the Supreme Court. Mr. Eisenhower believes in trying to convince Congressional leaders of the wisdom of his proposed legislation, but he refuses to pass that legislation either through intimidation, favor-giving, or any form of coercion. It is true that some very worthy pieces of legislation have...
...drive and no dreaminess. She had an unshakable faith in her voices and her mission because it could never occur to her to doubt them; hers was a kind of fanatic's certitude, not a heretic's defiance, less a refusal to "reason" or listen or obey than the sheerest incapacity...
Writing in the highbrow French review Arts last week, Poet Jean Cocteau diagnosed the midsummer madness that gripped Paris: "A lightning-quick epidemic which forces different and antagonistic persons all to obey the same mysterious order, to submit themselves to new habits which overturn their old ways of life, up to the moment when a new order arrives and obliges them to turn their coat once more...
...their gimmick potential in act one). Although Casona may at times hammer his points too strongly, he has sprinkled the play with witty epigrams, e.g.: "But, Grandmother, architects don't build old houses-time does," or "When two people are really in love, neither gives the orders: both obey...
When a student registers his car with the University he must agree to "obey all City and State parking regulations," leaving himself open to both Cambridge and University ticketing. In practice, however, students whose cars show the proper sticker receive only the more expensive University tickets for overnight violations...