Sentence:  King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I <WSD>hewed</WSD> that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To act according to, to conform to; "usually construed with" (to).