Word: heed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel industry is no longer merely a domestic problem, but one that affects the whole U.S. position in world steel. This year the U.S. industry has received a warning that it cannot isolate itself from the realities of world steel without suffering the consequences. If it does not heed the warning, it must pay the consequences in smaller sales and, eventually, in fewer jobs...
...Mercutio did Shakespeare give the celebrated Queen Mab speech, one of the great virtuoso arias in the language. Smithers delivers this faery monologue in a slow, sloppy, slovenly manner, with no heed to what he is saying, when the speech should be, in Mercutio's own words, "as thin of substance...
...with the disregard for the sensitivities of the democracies?" Said the Hindustan Times: "Let us hold our heads low. A small country on our border has paid the ultimate penalty for its temerity to aspire to independence . . . Much else could die with Tibet if we do not even now heed the warning...
...moments when he is noi haranguing Cubans in person, Fidel Castro passes the word through the columns of his mouthpiece newspaper, Revolutión. Last week, in a Page One Revolutión editorial, Castro gave the first real sign that he might heed the mounting chorus against his "war criminal" circus trials and grisly firing squads. "It is necessary," declared the editorial, "to put a quick end to the proceedings. The executions should be stopped...
Though the Treasury has long opposed such cuts, it is beginning to heed the rising chorus from businessmen that a tax slash would actually benefit the budget by reducing the need for foreign aid. Last week the Treasury was actively considering some tax concessions to spur foreign investment...