Word: heeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in a political vise, the Administration tried desperately to twist loose. From Walter Reed Hospital came word that President Eisenhower was willing to accept a compromise $500 million increase for the Air Force. As for foreign aid, Republican leaders could only hope that the Senate would heed its own Foreign Relations Committee and slash Administration requests by no more than $400 million this week...
...points, Archbishop Makarios would immediately appeal to the terrorists to call off the violence-and, said Kranidiotis, he would be obeyed. Asked why the peace-loving Archbishop had not done this earlier, Kranidiotis explained that, as the elected representative of the Cypriot people, the Archbishop had been bound to heed their inclinations, which were in "the Greek heroic tradition...
...Britain for some hard-to-get strategic item. With this in hand, it would then get an Italian license to export the raw materials to the allied country. But no consignment ever got to Britain or France. Either in Switzerland or in Belgium, where customs officers paid small heed to in-transit goods, the agency transshipped the stuff-from Switzerland by rail to Vienna and the East, from Antwerp by sea to Polish Gdynia...
Victory at the Polls. Stridently, the landlords appealed to the bishop. "That priest is a social agitator," said Daniel Perez, whose family has held the same land since the Spanish conquest. The bishop took heed. "If you run as a candidate, you will be suspended," he warned the priest. Zamorano-torn between his superior and his backers-decided to run. He won, last month...
...responsible British press paid little heed, but, as is often the case in British royal family matters, the gossip got an added fillip from a big play in New York's tabloid Daily News, which quoted unnamed "sources close to the royal household." London's own Woman's Sunday Mirror caught the ball and tossed it even higher, with a report that "priests in Rome are now taking part in three special days of prayer for the conversion of the Princess to the Roman Catholic faith." The Mirror went on to quote "an important Vatican official...