Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service and put together whole production units that have grown fiercely radioactive. Sometimes the human operatives watch the job through three feet of special glass, sometimes through periscopes, sometimes by means of stereoscopic television. In the latter case, they can work from miles away; the radiation-resistant robots will obey just the same...
...obey Lawrence and still comply with U.S. copyright laws, Publishers Doubleday printed 27 copies of The Mint, stuck 25 in a safe and gave two to the Library of Congress. Technically, the 25 copies are for sale, but to discourage trade (until a few more characters die), Doubleday has priced them at $500,000 apiece. Meanwhile, anyone who promises not to quote from it may examine one of the Library of Congress copies...
...last week, Uncle Horace and Marion decided to get married. They flew to Las Vegas, arriving at 3 in the morning, roused out a justice of the peace, and did so. At one point Marion, who knew the words, raced ahead of the justice and said, "Love, honor and obey . . ." Said the justice: "In Nevada you say cherish . . ." Marion agreed, being in Nevada...
...toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...
...police told taxi drivers that they must all take physical exams, and the cabbies didn't like it. Last week the cabbies threatened revenge. They would drive only at legal speeds, give the crossing pedestrian a sporting chance, acknowledge the other motorists' right of way, and strictly obey every traffic law. The result, they vowed, would be the worst traffic jam Paris has ever seen...