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Word: disobeying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more and more people," Mrs. Glueck, now a research associate at the Law School, said recently. For, instead of finding that the penal system was turning out permanently reformed criminals as was expected, the Gluecks discovered that about 80 per cent of the adult male offenders released, continued to disobey the law and about 88 per cent of the juvenile delinquents recidivated within five years after their dismissal...

Author: By Soma S. Golden, | Title: Gluecks Work to 'Spot' Delinquency | 10/3/1959 | See Source »

...Bishop Lord and other Methodist leaders have many times proposed political action at variance with the established national policy, such as recognition of Red China or its admittance to the United Nations. Would you disobey the directives of your religious leaders and remain loyal to the traditional American policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Questions for 1960 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Gaulle is your man? He is too puffed up with conceit to see that he is no leader; he is just a front man for a gang of adventurers and torturers who disobey his most solemn orders under his nose and get away with it. A once great country and people take another long stride toward a Fascism that bids fair to combine the cruelty of Naziism with the bumbling incompetence of the Falange. If you think that France is going to be ruled by enlightened capitalists and a kind of Gallic modern republicanism, then your ignorance of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe College, yesterday issued a warning to Annex students who disobey traffic laws while riding bicycles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bicycle Delinquency | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...What we should be concerned about is the depths to which military discipline has fallen. The fact of the matter is-Wheeler refused to obey a lawful order given him by a superior. If every soldier, sailor, marine or airman suddenly decided to disobey an order, the U.S. would be in a hell of a fix. The people of this country have a choice: A disciplined, effective military establishment or a rabble consisting of graduated juvenile delinquents, with Elvis Presley haircuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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