Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month's borough elections (TIME, Nov. 10). More cautious ones noted that Labor's vote in Gravesend had increased by only 3,083 since 1945, while the Tory vote increased by 8,464. "We've held the seat," said one Labor manager, "but we must heed the warning that the Tories increased their vote a good deal more. We can't afford that...
...great ship's bridge, gold-braided, choleric Commodore Cyril Gordon Illingworth paced restlessly. "We'll sail at 3 p.m.," he had said confidently the day before. But for once the Queen Mary's well-disciplined crew paid no heed to their commander's orders. In a strike meeting in a drafty wharfside shed, they were listening instead to the passionate oratory of a thin, febrile man in a cheap blue raincoat and a dirty white shirt...
...Through 30 cities, at the rate of almost one a day, he has toured the U.S. urging his fellow Protestants to unite at once in a common church of Christ.* Says he: "A world seeking unity, knowing that it must find it or perish, will pay only marginal heed to a church unable or unwilling to show the way to unity. . . . We think it is possible to find a form of union which will preserve all the good in the denominational emphases, and yet give the church a single, pointed power of witness to the nation and the world...
...Scare. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange was impressed. It raised margins on butter trading by 66%, on eggs 25%. Many a grain broker privately ordered his customers to post higher margins. But the grain-exchange officials took no heed of Mehl. Board of Trade President J. O. McClintock said firmly: "A margin fixed at an extreme limit is likely to throw . . . the market out of gear...
...done with opaque watercolor on vellum using fine brushes called pencils. In his Art of Limning, Hilliard directed: "The first and chiefest precept which I give is cleanliness, and therefore fittest for gentlemen, that the practicer of limning be precisely pure and cleanly in all his doings . . . take heed of the dandruff of the head shedding from the hair, and of speaking over your work for sparkling, for the least sparkling of spittle will never be helped if it light in the face or any part of the naked...