Word: heeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history, excelling Soviet progress, matching and even competing with U.S. economic power. At a time when the U.N. is in disarray and U.S. policymakers are looking to other institutions and communities for strength, such institutions and such a community are developing in Europe. At a time when so much heed is paid to the "new" nations, with all their bursting little new nationalisms, it is Europe's old nations, relaxing nationalist feuds, which are forming a fresh center of strength for Western civilization...
...boys were arrested at a Woolworth store, and the others at a Greyhound Bus depot after they had failed to heed advice from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to protest at a state institution instead of on private property...
...retrospect, Eisenhower-and more especially his civilian superiors-might have paid greater heed to British plans for countering Soviet ambitions in Germany. But it is difficult to fault Ike on his resolution of the strategic choices before him. Sums up authoritative Military Historian Forrest (The Supreme Command) Pogue, in Command Decisions: "When considered from the purely military viewpoint, his decision was certainly the proper one." In the war against Hitler, mistakes were made; but the key errors were the political agreements to divide Germany after the battle, not the military decisions on how to conquer...
...most festive form of cremation ceremony practiced by the Hindus of Bali. Though President Sukarno of Indonesia (who is part Balinese himself) deplored the celebration as an extravagance out of keeping with his nation's austere, eight-year development plan, the people of Gianjar seemed to pay little heed. When their old Rajah died at 68 last December, they mourned him publicly, and privately they looked forward to the free public festivities of his Karye Pitra-Yadnje Palebon...
...translations from several languages that he has written in the past 40 years. Using A. E. Housman's litmus for a true poem ("Does it make the hairs of one's chin bristle if one repeats it silently while shaving?"), many readers will be moved to heed the author's plea and consider him first of all a poet...