Word: heeding
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...shouting good, the snake handling began. The Rev. Raymond Hayes of Grasshopper put the serpent that had bitten Brother Ford into the coffin. It coiled up quietly on Brother Ford's chest. In the excitement Brother Hayes was bitten by a rattler, but he paid it no heed and felt all right afterward...
...Soviet Union, "at the request of its allies ... as a loyal ally," was keeping its promise. Tokyo's failure to heed the Potsdam terms-terms to which the Soviet Union now subscribed-had rendered the previously denounced but legally binding Russian-Japanese neutrality treaty null & void. (For once, the western allies had no mind to belittle a soviet cynicism...
...Chicago, some retailers think they now know that high-school students prefer colored toothpaste, eat three times as many candy bars as their parents, heed Lifebuoy's "B.O." slogan oftener than Ivory's "It Floats." This and other sales-stimulating information is the merchandise they buy from Chicago's newest pollster: pollster" jive-jumping Eugene Gilbert, president of Gil-Bert Teen Age Services...
Union pickets at the plants paid little heed to those who bought single copies, sometimes spilled the bundles of those who bought more. Many of the strikers were in high good humor; they had made a killing on Picket Line in the third race at Aqueduct, collecting $46.20 for their $2 investment...
...North Side, hunting funds he needed to settle a domestic problem (springing his wife from jail). But he got tangled up with the police, and by the time the shooting stopped he was dead. So was a detective. Chicago, long accustomed to small-arms fire, paid little heed. But when police discovered that the dead gangster was from Detroit, Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "I'm tired of these hoodlums coming in here from neighboring areas and giving Chicago a bad name...