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Word: heeds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corps National Advisory Council. He sits in on meetings of the Cabinet and is a member of the National Security Council. But all of this together adds up to only a fraction of his old power and influence. He is free to speak up, but nobody, really, has to heed him anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: Seen, Not Heard | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...Heed Advice. Worldly observers are at a loss to explain the popularity of these Johnny-come-lately journalists. Astrology itself still rests firmly on the reassuring premise that the earth is the center of the universe, and contemporary astrologers, like their ancient predecessors, take refuge in generalities so broad as to be totally unedifying. "Good lunar aspect today encourages romance, change, travel, salesmanship on highest level," read a recent and all encompassing bulletin from Sidney Omarr who does not apologize for such ambiguities. Says he: "Astrology deals not with facts, but with profundities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Profundities, Not Facts | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...claim is indisputable, but often the profundities can be confusing. On the same day, while Omarr urged his readers to "act on convictions, " a competitive occultist, Clay R. Pollan, told his readers to "heed good advice." Before the 1956 presidential campaign, Constella-the nom de plume for a sometime poet named Shirley Spencer - rashly predicted that Eisenhower would not be a candidate for re-election and that the election would go to a Democrat, and then named him: Averell Harriman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Profundities, Not Facts | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

Most European drivers on principle ignore the traffic laws, which they regard as an abridgment of their uncivil rights. However, they heed one caution signal: the red-and-white license plates of a car or truck from Belgium. Alone among Western European nations, Belgium does not issue drivers' licenses, give traffic instruction in its schools, or even demand that car owners show rudimentary knowledge of the rules of the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: The Red Badge of Carnage | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...prominent place on the American breakfast table that many a mother has been moved to cram the kids with pills. If a little of the stuff is good-so the reasoning runs-a lot must be better. Not so, says Orthopedic Surgeon Charles N. Pease; parents should pay more heed to warnings about the possible dangers from vitamin overdosage. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Pease cites specific examples of damage done by too much vitamin A: it has stunted children's growth or left one leg two to three inches shorter than the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Much of a Good Thing | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

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