Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to continue to be a Communist, but that doesn't mean that your papers must continually preach hatred of the U.S. and it doesn't mean that you must slavishly obey orders from Moscow . . . If the new China learns to make tanks before she learns to manufacture trucks and tractors, it will be a world tragedy. Yours is the opportunity...
...which prohibits parking after 2 a.m. . . . the Police Department defends the statute on the grounds that cars on the street at night are a hazard to the Fire Department . . . but the Fire Department has pointed out that it can get its hook and ladders through any streets where parkers obey the daytime parking signs . . . There is only one group of people who stand to gain from the parking law, and they are the proprietors of the local garages and parking lots...
...capable of believing anything he was not taught to believe. Once a couple of years ago, after an affable dinner and a round of brandy, a Western diplomat asked him point-blank why he acted the way he did. Malik hesitated a moment, then calmly replied: "But I must obey my instructions." There seemed to be no cynicism in the answer...
...American.' As they can take it for granted that in spite of this, the Swede refuses to comply, the following sentence is recommended: 'Hand over your papers'; and then the threat 'No nonsense'; and finally follows the most convincing argument of all: 'Obey, otherwise I shoot...
...testify before a House committee was William Lorenzo Patterson, Negro attorney and a well-known and voluble mouthpiece of the Communist Party. First he refused to obey the committee's order to surrender records of his Communist-controlled Civil Rights Congress, which the committee had asked for. Then he began explaining certain expenditures by his outfit...