Word: heeding
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...More reader interest than a) politics, b) baseball, c) Elvis Presley, d) canals, or e) Marilyn Monroe, COMBINED!"), is running in about 50 papers. Meanwhile, the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate is starting a rival column written by a Cleveland dentist who is retired and thus need not heed the cries of his fellow dentists should he touch them on a sensitive nerve. Dentist Garvin himself is so flooded with would-be patients that he has to send them to other dentists. Declared an editorial in the Times-Star: "Dr. Garvin has performed a useful service to this community...
...cult of the "beat generation," and the San Francisco literary renaissance has scarcely begun to penetrate the ivy. "Maybe," wrote Princeton's Carlos Baker recently, "this is the Age of Consolidation . . . [Students] are too busy reading and thinking about older thinkers and writers to pay extensive heed to the newest ones...
Empty Words. In Dallas, burglars broke into the Lee Slaughter Lumber Co., failed to heed a sign reading "This safe is not locked," worked hard to force the safe open, found nothing but papers...
...Lagos was best known to 19th century Britons as "the white man's grave," inspired the old couplet: "Beware and take heed of the Bight of Benin, / There few come out, where many...
...Commons, where his shrewd advice created endless trouble for James. When Commons suggested that James be petitioned for liberty of speech and action, cagey Edward Coke pointed out to the members the potentially fatal error of begging for something that was already theirs by right of law. "Take heed," he said, "that we lose not our liberties by petitioning for liberty," and: "If my sovereign will not allow me my inheritance, I must fly to Magna Carta...