Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five terms as mayor of Dearborn (pop. 94,530), on the western edge of Detroit, irrepressible Orville L. ("Little Orvie") Hubbard has managed to obey almost every impulse that has popped into his head. It has not always led to the happiest results. His wife, for instance, once complained publicly that in a domestic tiff he had belabored her with a blackjack. The sheriff of Wayne County tried to jug him for not paying a $7,500 libel judgment, thus forcing him to set up a temporary government in exile at Windsor, Ont. (TIME, Aug. 21). And finally, a recall...
Grim Memories. Long-suffering Britons hastened to obey. The warning revived grim memories of the freezing winter of 1947 when the coal strike paralyzed industry and transport, threw 4,000,000 out of -work, sent overcoated millions to a long diet of cold food...
...state a breath-taking demand for emergency powers in case of atomic attack or invasion. Dewey wanted stand-by authority to: make law by proclamation, seize private homes and property, conscript manpower, ration raw materials and finished goods, set up constructions priorities, fire any public officer who refused to obey his order (including mayors and police chiefs). This was not exactly martial law, an aide explained, because the Army would not be in charge, and injured citizens would still have recourse to the courts. Most of the citizenry read it more as the headline in Manhattan's Sunday News...
...hazy price proclamation aimed at almost every businessman. ESA asked for a general freeze on prices except farm products (about which ESA can do little), and a rollback of price increases since Dec. 1. The freeze was voluntary, said ESA, but woe to the businessman who didn't obey. ESA warned that anyone who did not cooperate would be punished when "feasible," apparently meaning when ESA makes the order mandatory and gets some price cops...
...soldier was shot for refusing to obey an order in World War II, though 142 were executed for other crimes...