Word: heed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dear," a husband chirruped to his wife on a Havana soap opera, "when I go to the cane field and really work for my country, all my aches and pains disappear." Every village, factory, business, union and government agency received a quota, and any Cuban who failed to heed the call risked losing his job. Out they came last week, 1,000,000 strong, nearly paralyzing by their absence every government agency and private business. In the swing with Castro were his little brother Raul, who heads up the armed forces, President Osvaldo Dorticós, Foreign Minister Raul...
...Boston police did not heed this warning. By contrast, the Cambridge police shepherded the marchers from the Cambridge Common to the Mass. Ave. bridge with admirable control. They stationed men at every possible trouble point along the way. Though it was evident that their sympathies were not with the protestors, they brooked absolutely no trouble from a group of about 50 pro war demonstrators who marched the whole way a few yards ahead of the protestors...
Scarcely two weeks ago he issued a "friendly warning" to Moro that a full-fledged government crisis might be in the making if the Premier did not pay more heed to the Fanfani wing of the Christian Democrats. That wing controls about 30 votes - the margin that shot down the government last week...
...atypical; on Capitol Hill it is normally easier to obstruct than to enact. To appreciate how Congress usually functions, we need only go back to the first session of the 88th Congress in 1963. Then the House was wallowing in inaction, ignoring the Administration's advice and paying heed to the since discredited economic myths opposing the tax cut and the racist opposition to the civil rights bill...
Christmas message, Pope Paul VI exhorted: "Brothers, heed the message of peace which Christmas brings to men who even now are the object of God's love. Check the way things are going. It is possible that you are on the wrong track. Stop and think. True wisdom is to be found in peace, and true peace is to be found in the alliance of love...