Word: heeding
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...boys were arrested at a Woolworth store, and the others at a Greyhound Bus depot after they had failed to heed advice from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to protest at a state institution instead of on private property...
...most festive form of cremation ceremony practiced by the Hindus of Bali. Though President Sukarno of Indonesia (who is part Balinese himself) deplored the celebration as an extravagance out of keeping with his nation's austere, eight-year development plan, the people of Gianjar seemed to pay little heed. When their old Rajah died at 68 last December, they mourned him publicly, and privately they looked forward to the free public festivities of his Karye Pitra-Yadnje Palebon...
...translations from several languages that he has written in the past 40 years. Using A. E. Housman's litmus for a true poem ("Does it make the hairs of one's chin bristle if one repeats it silently while shaving?"), many readers will be moved to heed the author's plea and consider him first of all a poet...
Sprinting from speech to speech on the third anniversary of his revolutionary regime, volatile Kassem repeated last week that he would not use force to "liberate" Kuwait-and in the next breath threatened force against Britain. "We shall launch a bitter war against the British if they do not heed right and abandon oppression!" he told the crowds after reviewing a 2½-hour parade of troops and weapons in Baghdad's Liberation Square...
...sends the word back to A.M.A. headquarters in Chicago. From there it is relayed through the Congressman's state and county society to his personal physician. This doctor usually does what he is asked: he phones or wires the Congressman. The legislator is far more likely to heed a trusted, intimate adviser than any number of relative strangers. This technique works poorly with Senators and some big-city Congressmen, but it has proved to be magic with small-town and rural members of the House...