Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unscheduled but extremely fiery speech ("Humble as I am, plebeian as I may be deemed, permit me in the presence of this brilliant assemblage . . ."). "Senators on the Republican side." reported the New York World, "began to hide their heads." Notables tugged at his coattails, but Johnson paid no heed. The Vice President was quite drunk...
...opened an office in Wadsworth House and immediately began to plug for an infirmary. James Stillman of New York was the first to heed Bailey's plea. He came across with $150,000, and Stillman opened...
Dickens had some practical sense in such things. He felt that it was useless to talk to a prostitute of her duty to society. "Society," he wrote, "has used her ill ... and she cannot be expected to take much heed of its rights or wrongs." He thought, instead, that the charges of Urania Cottage should be "tempted to virtue" by kindness and by the chance to learn an occupation and good habits, to hear pleasant music and read not only elevating but even enjoyable books, to putter in gardens, and, finally, by the chance to sail, passage-paid by Miss...
...ceasefire in Korea, 2) release of all Japanese war criminals, 3) repatriation of Japanese prisoners still held by the Russians, 4) the abolition of war toys throughout the world. Said Fellowship President Dr. Gunapala Malalasekera of Ceylon: "We earnestly call upon the world's leaders . . . quickly to pay heed to the teaching of Sakyamuni,* so as to attain a world of selfless concord...
...THAT I WROTE OTHER BOOKS: "THE DONKEY INSIDE"-ON ECUADOR. "THE BLUE DANUBE"-ON THE MISERY OF GERMANY. "THE BEST OF TIMES"- ON POSTWAR EUROPE. "FIFl"- ABOUT A POODLE. "MADELINE"-ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL. "DIRTY EDDY"-ABOUT A PIG. "THE EYE OF GOD"-ABOUT A MOUNTAIN. I SHALL, HOWEVER, HEED YOUR ADVICE. MY NEXT BOOK IS ABOUT LOVE. ITS TITLE: "WITH THE GREATEST OF PLEASURES." LOVE...