Word: heed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply can't stand it." Simon's public attack on Wheeling Steel President William Steele ("Not even a good vice president") was unprecedented for its bitterness, has helped make the entire steel industry wary of Simon. Says Norman Cousins: "I've been telling him lately: 'Norton, remember, pay some heed to your image...
Simon finds that admonition difficult to heed, though he clearly broods over the hostility he brings out in others. "My hostilities are usually showing," he says, in the vein of introspection of which he is so fond. "But I do get rid of my anger very rapidly. Some people are born with peace of mind. I was not. In the Dostoevskian sense, I am the suffering man; I know this about myself. And I know now that working my way out of it is a very gratifying experience. I have gone through a process of reconciliation with myself...
Then, in the fall of 1956, came Elvis Presley with his flapping hair, three-inch sideburns, and gyrating hips. "Ah wa-ha-hunt yew-hoo, Ah nee-hee-heed yew-hoo," he sang, and millions of teenagers flipped...
...energetic, extroverted Beitz to run the company through a streamlined four-man Direktorium of his handpicked aides. Alfried shows no signs of ending Beitz's stewardship, but he may eventually vest ownership in a family foundation. Indeed, it is possible that this huge one-man company may heed the advice of many German bankers and sell its shares to the public...
Eden's love and respect for Churchill are dominated in the book by exasperation at a leader who did not always heed his right-hand man. "W. rang up in a rage because Bevan and Attlee had taken my view on how to handle De Gaulle. I didn't budge an inch." When Churchill frowned on an Eden proposal for a strong postwar France and hinted that the two of them "might be coming to a break," Eden decided that the old man was losing his balance...