Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Each one of us must decide to what extent we as a nation should heed the warnings, and though the emergency be great, we must come to our decision by the cumbersome process of free debate...
...negotiations but memorialized their disturbance "lest some new conception of American hemispheric defense may affect the status of this ancient colony. . . . We reaffirm our unswerving loyalty to His Majesty the King. . . . We pledge our support to any agreement reached, but pray that such agreement may take heed of our deep-rooted and fervent attachment to the crown...
...Hungary in World War I. In the 20 years after 1919 the Entente was frequently strained: when Britain refused to consider Germany's occupation of the Rhineland as a casus belli; when the British Conservative Government entered a naval limitation pact with the Nazis; when Britain refused to heed France's advice to meet Russia's terms for a triple alliance in the spring of 1939. Last week the Entente, foremost factor in European power politics for 36 years, became another casualty in Hitler...
...trying hard to forget World War I. Mr. Wheeler's own Senatorial concerns were domestic: helping blow the lid off Teapot Dome, plugging for silverite legislation, building his reputation as an able, fighting Liberal. Among many things he was against were big armaments. But he gave little heed to foreign affairs, did not trouble to label himself an Isolationist when that word still had punch...
...became a "good neighbor" under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the U. S. occasionally called the turn south of the Border. Since then the decade's two great political evangelists, Germany and Russia, have moved in, and Mexicans, familiar with only the weaknesses of democracy, were willing to heed Communist doctrine or to see the beauty of Nazi ideology and particularly Nazi financial favors. Today, while guns roar in Europe, both Nazis and Communists are solidly entrenched below the Rio Grande, and with a national election on July 7 at stake, Mexico faces a crisis...