Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pure folly that this slaughter of well-meaning climbers should continue when it may be so easily avoided. Mount Washington is not an inherently dangerous mountain in spite of the many accidents that inexperienced climbers will bot heed the warnings of those who know the mountain well, and are aware of the dangers that await the person who is not prepared for its rigors. John S. Humphreys '54, President, HMC, Harry S. Francis '54, Chairman Safety Committee, H. Erich Helnemann '53, Chairman, Rock Committee...
...Africans round the table took heed: they well understood that if the cigar was lighted, Nigeria's hopes for early independence might easily go up in smoke. Lyttelton's object at the conference was to devise a new federal constitution that will enable Nigeria's 30 million to achieve self-government along the same lines as their neighbors in the boom ing Gold Coast, without falling out in the process. The Africans too are eager for independence - but divided in factions...
...colony of the U.S. Even the U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission's plan for better roads and ports is just a trick for the U.S. to get war materials out of the country. Nationalists and others interested in building up a Brazilian economy free from yanqui rule should take heed, said Prestes, to these proposals: 1) annulment of all treaties with the U.S., 2) confiscation of all capital and enterprises belonging to "American monopolists," and 3) cancellation of Brazil's debt...
...world, eh? Godmudder used to say: 'Tek heed he dat stand lest he falleth' . . . Godmudder was a wise woman...
...ignores science, so the Atheneum pays little heed to current, utilitarian fashions. Throughout a century in its present location the library has steadily become a stronger advocate of "gracious living." Tea is now served every day at four. The walls are lined with prints and busts of men from Edmund Burke to Patrick Henry; old globes and Italian Renaissance tables fill in the niches. The Trustee's room on the fourth floor is a remarkably beautiful oval room whose bookshelves contain Washington's Mt. Vernon collection, and whose cabinets house the effluvia of a conscious literary tradition, a letter from...