Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Baptists and alumni protested hotly that the college was getting smeared with tobacco stains. They warned that if Wake Forest took the money, it might "lose its soul," might even find its name changed to Camel University.* But President Harold Tribble, a Baptist theologian from Charlottesville, paid no heed to the skeptics. He argued and begged at alumni banquets, civic meetings and Baptist groups. He pointed out again & again that the Reynolds Foundation had no intention of trying to run the college or change its name. Finally, half the necessary $15 million...
After the automobile was invented, Maine saw no reason for changing this philosophy. Other states adopted hand signals, and "summer" people who came north in big shiny cars got to signaling in a familiar manner at crossroads. State of Mainers paid no heed. No law said a man had to tell the rest of the world his business. Some upstarts, to be sure, tried getting hand signals through the legislature on at least four different occasions. But each time the idea was turned down on the ground that Maine winters are so cold that a man shouldn't have...
...become to him "a lost Eden." It is Ussher's hope that Jew and gentile may fashion an intellectual merger of their complementary talents. Too much the speculative philosopher to say exactly how, Ussher does leave a gentle trail of hints. The Jews, he implies, might take less heed of the Talmud's warning ("Go not near the Grecian wisdom-it has no fruit but only blossoms") and flavor their love of practical purpose with a dash of the gentile gift for the fanciful. Gentiles, on the other hand, might do well to stop hymning their capacity...
Down Hanover is another legitimate skin show, the Casino. The Casino, less conscious of tradition than the Old Howard, offers "Burlesk," rather than the more genteel "Burlesque." Boston's famed Watch and Ward Society and other public indignation groups take little heed of either the Casino or the Old Howard...
...think Krick's methods are all too effective. They blame him for rained-out ball games, flash floods, dry spells, chicken-killing hailstorms, and all manner of crop damage. Beyond issuing a few over-the-shoulder rejoinders (sharp to the scientists, soothing to the citizenry), he pays little heed to such infidels, and goes on about his missionary work like Billy Graham gathering converts...