Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press gave even less heed to the Biblical text which Winston Churchill recommended to the Allied peoples...
...This is not a time," said he, "for us to indulge in sanguine predictions. Rather should we remind ourselves of St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall...
...sponsored by mop-haired, eloquent Everett Dirksen, Illinois Republican (and close friend of Earl Smith, the brains of the American Farm Bureau). The House was on a violent rampage. Even veteran anti-New Dealers warned the members they were going too far. The young Turks would not hear or heed. They had tasted blood...
...when the Baron rose from his desk to take the girl in his arms her eyes were menacing. Suddenly she clawed a sharp knife from her clothes, struck it deep into the Baron's breast. He crumpled, begging for mercy, but the girl did not heed. Calmly she washed her hands, tidied her hair, plucked the pass from the Baron's stiffening fingers, swept offstage...
This was no empty threat. Since Neighboring Norway and Denmark were invaded in 1940, Swedish airmen and antiaircraftmen have shot down scores of German planes which flew over Sweden and failed to heed warnings. The Swedes do not want to go to war with Germany. But they also know that Germany, amply occupied elsewhere, does not want to go to war with them...