Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vann first arrived in Viet Nam in 1962 as an Army lieutenant colonel. He quickly learned that the South Vietnamese forces he was advising suffered from "an institutionalized unwillingness to fight." When his superiors refused to heed his reports and force Saigon to engage the Communist guerrillas, he took his case to the small cadre of resident reporters, including Sheehan and David Halberstam of the New York Times. By the time Vann's one-year tour ended, the reporters were convinced that he had jeopardized his military career by speaking out. Halberstam, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Viet...
...important to remember that one space flight does not a space program make," Sally Ride, America's first woman astronaut, said last week after the launch of the space shuttle Discovery. Exulting at the shuttle's safe landing, the nation must heed Ride's warning and ask itself what its goals in outer space...
...showed he was a capable speaker at the Democratic Convention. He needs to bring his speaking skills to people most wanting to heed what...
...most important thing in this city is not keeping your head so much as keeping your feet," he said. "Don't forget where you are from. Cling to your family and friends. Books and lessons from the past should be your roots. Heed that line from Alan Drury's Advise and Consent that goes something like this: 'Washington took them as lovers and they were gone...
Will we pay him heed and will we act on his message until Massachusetts has at last wiped out the stains of incompetence and dishonesty and once again become "the city on the hill" about which John Kennedy spoke almost three years ago today...