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Word: obeys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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City officials said yesterday the College might be fined if students refuse to obey the regulation, but they said they have not yet made a final decision on possible penalties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorm Students Must Give Up Cooking Gear | 10/13/1978 | See Source »

...leave Laos soon, since the government had announced plans to take over her store. The large central market seemed adequately stocked with fresh vegetables, soap, cigarettes, pots and pans, cotton cloth and even finely wrought silver works -all still being sold by private merchants. While virtually all women obey a government order to wear the traditional Lao skirt, called the sin, some top them with T shirts promoting ADIDAS or "U.C.L.A. BRUINS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Puritans | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...party goons he has assembled in the great house in Paraguay: Kill 94 men, all of them petty civil servants scattered around the world, and kill them on or near their 65th birthdays as they occur over the next 2½ years. Still, true to their code, the Nazis obey his command unquestioningly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cloning Around | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...previous government as a buffer zone so that the Gaza Strip has its peace and we have our peace. But for President Sadat it is an issue in which he says, "I can't." So now a decision will have to be taken by the Knesset. We have to obey parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Begin | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...whimsical in its workings. A huge sense of grievance festers. The injustice of the courts seems to mirror the injustice of the economic system. All the rules of society seem to have been changed. You work hard, but inflation destroys your gains; so much for the work ethic. You obey the law, but somehow you get hurt and criminals profit, unpunished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: On Crime and Much Harder Punishment | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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