Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love West Point the hard way. From there on, the film drags in Flirtation Walk, the honor system, the show-must-go-on, a pretentious cantata celebrating the Academy and such production-number props as the U.S. flag. Through it all, breathing hard and never able to obey the cadets' admonitions to "suck in that gut," Cagney struts, mugs and rampages with the embarrassing insistence of a pugnacious drunk whom no one quite dares to lead to the door. For its best moments, The West Point Story depends on talented Dancer Gene Nelson and the pleasant voices of Gordon...
...plan would extend permission until midnight when at least three couples are present in one rom for a party. Single couples would have to obey the regular hours. The program would require students to sign up ahead of time for their parties...
...faculty summoned the rebels, who issued another manifesto saying, "The gentlemen of the faculty are also informed that we can hereafter obey no summons to appear individually before them." Their classmates balked at the ultimatum, however, and the rebellions 40 sophomore leaders were expelled...
...only big steel company that C.I.O. could never organize. In 1937, he was accused of unfair labor practices. He fought the case for 13 years, until last August. Then he was forced to obey an NLRB order and quit bargaining with the Weirton Independent Union. Reason: NLRB had decided it was a creature of management and a federal court ordered it dissolved. The court ruled that no other union could be set up in the plant for three months. This gave the C.I.O. time to go in and organize. Last week NLRB put it to a vote of Weirton employees...
...Direct" controls, notably price ceilings, drew fire for varying reasons. Professors Galbraith, Harris, and other argue that price controls should be held off as the all-out emergency measure, and Mason points out that the public would not obey them unless a real emergency existed. Slichter feels price ceilings would be particularly inappropriate "in a long-run production contest which may last for years and which the United States must win by rapidly expanding its output...