Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Treasury Department ordered chess genius Bobby Fischer to obey U.S. sanctions and forgo a $5 million match in Yugoslavia last fall, Fischer, the sole American-born world chess champion, delivered an unambiguous reply: he spit on the department's letter. He also won the match. Now that a federal jury has issued a warrant for Fischer's arrest, the misanthropic grandmaster continues his defiance, telling a Belgrade newspaper that he will play additional matches there...
...been dodging bullets since the French Indochina war, landed in time to witness the media circus that greeted the troops on the beach. "The Marines showed admirable restraint," says Wilde. He tells the story of one U.S. trooper, faced with a particularly irritating photographer who refused to obey orders to lie down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing thugs, pesky mosquitoes and static-stricken telephone...
...drivers are instructed to obey the official policy, which requires them to turn people away or to put the bus in park if the extra people refuse to get off the bus, he says...
...others trying to wash or obey the call of Mother Nature between 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., it was a morning of frustration...
...tragedy is that as long as the regulation is there, the military has no choice but to obey it. So it seemed to me that perhaps my case could be looked at differently because it's coming at the whole process from the opposite direction: instead of being a young, untried person whom they're not going to give a chance to, I'm dealing with the regulation in light of what I have already done...