Word: heed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windows, "built in Texas by Texans." When one woman said to me that "Texans are wonderful people," it seemed like a refrain of what another American told me--"Americans are good chaps." This seems to be a rather widespread belief. It does help to explain why Americans pay little heed to a lot of criticism--after all what does it matter what they do if fundamentally they are good chaps...
...also said, "if they don't go along with us, I say we go alone." He took issue with the judgment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the whole broad strategy of the Korean war, yet advised the Senators: "I think that this committee ought to heed what they say very carefully. They are all very fine, competent...
John Hancock was one of the College's poorer treasurers. "He refused to make accountings or to heed pointed suggestions that he resign," writes Cabot "Finally, when he was away from Boston as President of the Continental Congress one of the Harvard tutors was sent to him by the Corporation to receive the papers and securities in his hands, and succeeded in getting from him 18,000 pounds sterling of the College securities...
...spectre of compulsory service hangs heavy over their heads like the sword of Damocles. But we must remember that youth is the lifeblood of the nation. Still we cannot send a boy to do the man's job of stopping the savage hordes from the arid steppes. We must heed the clarion call of duty...
...stricture that Congress was apt to heed; Congress was in a mood for much more spending, lending and giving-and would have to be, if the country (and not just its cash) was to be conserved...