Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fading, Baroque art of Goya's day, charm was the watchword. Goya brushed charm aside; he no longer cared to please. Throughout his career, he had listened to others' orders and carried them out amiably enough. Now he no longer heard his orders; he gradually ceased to obey, and even to reply. Except for official portraits, Goya's art stopped being a succession of answers to the world's demands and became simply statements of the artist, delivered with bullet force...
...material, he underwent no overnight transformation. But firm controls at the center helped him improve his own self-control, and the counselors' patently impartial concern for his welfare brought him slowly to understand his problem and its causes. He began to exert himself, gruffly ordering younger children to obey the center staff...
...local police regulations. It is still a matter of taste, and one may still believe in it, but its practice in public schools, according to any interpretation of the Supreme Court ruling, is illegal. When apologists talk about "local problems" they are now speaking about an unwillingness to obey...
...school systems over to private hands would have meant an interminate revival of complete segregation and a lowering of already inferior educational standards. Nevertheless, the "wisdom" of the Court's decision only emphasizes the unpleasant truth that a sizeable segment of the population is not, at present, ready to obey the law. The Court has merely made clear that it prefers modified un-Constitutionality to possible violence...
...French officer told the Vietnamese commanders that they would be seized for insubordination if they continued to fight; since the French still control the rationing of arms and oil to the Vietnamese army, the commanders had to obey. French colonial infantry and tanks rumbled out into the streets of Saigon to tamp down the battle. Off to Freedom Palace went French Commissioner-General Paul Ely to caution the Premier: "You are trying to seek a decision by force. You must not do it. You must only seek a settlement by political means...