Word: heedings
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...Wilson cautioned that the leader must not get too far ahead of his public: "He must read the common thought; he must test and calculate very circumspectly the preparation of the nation for the next move in politics." (On the League of Nations issue, Wilson himself failed to heed his own advice and indeed got too far ahead of the country...
...almost like a nervous breakdown," said David Bleakley, a moderate Protestant. "All the little symbols of Protestant order have been going one by one, all the divinely enduring things of ordinary life and their traditions." When Britain's new government failed to heed the signals of the breakdown and offer any kind of remedy, Protestant laborers, organized into an ad hoc group called the Ulster Workers Council, began walking off their jobs on May 14 as an act of defiance...
...begun under Eisenhower and was carried out by holdovers. It was one of the few times that Sorensen irritated Kennedy. "Don't do that," he rasped. "We made this mistake." Before the successful conclusion of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Kennedy was certain that his failure to heed the early warnings from Republicans such as Homer Capehart and Kenneth Keating about the missiles would bring Democratic defeats in the fall. Some aides wanted to deprecate the Republicans, but Kennedy refused. "Capehart," he told Sorensen, "is the Winston Churchill of our time...
...balances are changing hour by hour, not day by day. So there must be a new look, and I am trying to adapt us to this new look, to the new balances, to the new strategies. Some are shouting that I am abolishing Nasserism. I don't pay heed to them...
...bank accounts and took land illegally from the peasants." Thousands of students paraded noisily proclaiming support of the army and demanding freedom of the press and formation of political parties. As for the new Prime Minister, he promised "thorough economic and social change"-an indication that he intends to heed the army's yearning for Ethiopia to escape from the dark ages...