Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unarmed in 33 cities. Facing what The New York Times has called "chilly indifference to outright opposition" from the police, the Angels have not yet been accused of any of the dire misdeeds that liberals fear and police apparently would love to reveal. The Angels--at least so far--obey the law. And though it is difficult to prove, they seem to deter crime and make the citizens around them feel safer...
Royalty is bound by snoblesse oblige to obey the tenets of U and non-U, the sacred set of English rules that separates upper class from lower, proper from gauche. Lately the House of Windsor has been demonstrating both sides of U usage. At Badminton competing for the Whitbread Trophy, Princess Anne's horse Stevie B was decidedly non-U as he made a shambles of a jump and a splash of his royal rider. Both walked away safely, everything dampened but their spirits. Meanwhile, Fleet Street speculated that Princess Margaret would marry an Old Eton ian and wealthy...
...play is an essay on the artistocracy of the insane: Whom the gods wish to embrace, they first drive mad. Agnes is a strange young woman, singing in an Angelus-clear soprano and obey voices no one can hear. It remains for Martha and Miriam to translate these sounds into the lumbering prose of reason. Pielmeier orchestrates the examination deftly and leavens the weightier speculations with airy talk-show humor. But as Agnes soars into catharsis and Martha tries desparately to anchor her in the explicable, Pielmeier allows himself to take leave of dramatic sense. He offers too many motivations...
...that's Jaruzelski," the prisoners argued. The commandant was adamant, threatening the detainees with all sorts of punishments if they did not obey his orders. In mock obedience, one of them approached the snowman and knocked off his cap, epaulets, decorations and dark glasses. Then, with one decisive stroke, he chopped off its head...
...well-to-do; their accommodations are first class and their fellow passengers fashionable. One incident mars the trip. The train stops unexpectedly, and the non-Christians aboard are politely asked to get off and show their papers to a local official. Bruno and his mother are among those who obey. Once this is done, the journey resumes. The setting is Austria in the late 1930s...