Word: heed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Different View. "But you and I and most Americans take a different view of our peril. We know that it comes from without, not within. It must be met by quiet preparedness, not provocative speeches ... So let us not heed these counsels of fear and suspicion. Let us concentrate more on keeping enemy bombers and missiles away from our shores, and less on keeping neighbors away from our shelters. Let us devote more energy to organizing the free and friendly nations of the world, with common trade and strategic goals, and less energy to organizing armed bands of civilian guerrillas...
Ever since he left Washington, Dwight Eisenhower has been encouraging his former Cabinet members to stay active in politics and even to run for office. First to heed the advice was Labor Secretary James Mitchell, who ran for Governor of New Jersey and was defeated by Democrat Richard Hughes (TIME, Nov. 17). Last week a second Ike teammate announced he would make the try. In Lincoln, Neb., former Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton announced he would run for Governor of Nebraska; he will probably face conservative Republican State Chairman Charles Thone in a primary next May. In addition to Mitchell...
...second and weaker of Gideon's two acts, Gideon falls un-Biblically out of love with the Lord. He fails to heed the Lord's command to kill some idolatrous Hebrew tribal chiefs. There is an extenuating fleshly circumstance. One of the chief's daughters is a pelvic marvel (Lorraine Egypt) who does a temptress dance to rival Salome's. More pertinently, and impertinently, Gideon pleads that his pity for fellow humans is above God's law. He asks the Lord to be released from the "covenant of love." arguing "You are too vast...
...four centuries since the German banking house of Fugger began to pay an astrologer to predict financial trends, economic forecasting has become so universal a pastime that today's conscientious investor or businessman is hard put to it to know whose voice to heed. One voice that is heeded is that of the National Association of Business Economists, whose membership is drawn from the top economists employed by U.S. private industry. A year ago, the N.A.B.E. produced a forecast of the 1961 business rebound that proved to be dead right. Last week, meeting in Chicago's Edgewater Beach...
Back home in Maine, Senator Smith, a childless widow, shrugged off the blast, suggested, "Mr. Khrushchev is angry because American officials have grown more firm since my speech." But Laborite Shinwell was sorry that the U.S. took so little heed of Moscow's noise, commented, "Although Khrushchev makes a slashing attack on Americans in his letter, he emphasizes that he wants peace. I am convinced he means it if we will play ball with...