Word: heed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative Democrat Harry Byrd. The idea was that a Finance Committee increased by two liberals would help in the passage of Kennedy's tax and medicare programs. Kennedy himself, told he could not win, tried to call his followers off. But the Senate liberals paid no heed, insisted on bringing it to a vote in the Democratic Steering Committee-and they got badly whipped...
...first head of the newly created Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, Governor Orval Faubus had one admonition: "Think of Arkansas first in all that you do." That was in 1955, and since then Millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller, a transplanted New Yorker, has certainly paid heed to Orval's words. In fact, he has perhaps done too well at helping Arkansas redeem itself from poverty. For Democrat Faubus is now trying to oust Republican Rockefeller from the A.I.D.C. chairmanship...
...night was cold, the sidewalks icy, but the unconcerned couple and their German shepherd pet strolled on. Other pedestrians, their faces buried in their coats, paid them little heed. How could they have known that Jack. Jackie and Clipper would be out walking the streets near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...over a sidewalk while making a turn, sailed through a red light, flicked on her left-turn indicator at an intersection and then drove straight across, finally parked at the test center-three feet from the curb. So sure was Miss Hunter of her innocence that she refused to heed court summonses to answer for her highway misdeeds. A policewoman finally had to climb through her apartment window to arrest her. In court last week. Miss Hunter declined to enter a plea, said: "I don't think the question of guilt enters into it." The court thought otherwise, fined...
...Hundreds of gendarmes had fled into the bush before the blue-helmeted U.N. troops arrived. Some 75 white mercenaries, including a pistol-packing blonde ambulance driver known around town as Madame Yvette, had taken off for the Angolan border. But most of Tshombe's 2.000 bedraggled men paid heed to his plea to "cooperate with the U.N. and our Congolese brothers," dutifully stacked their arms at a nearby depot. At his yellow villa on the edge of Kolwezi, Tshombe greeted Noronha with a grin. "Nobody shot at you, I see," he cracked. Replied Noronha, throwing an arm around Tshombe...