Word: heeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
There are not nearly enough political leaders today willing to heed this truism. But everywhere there seem to be people ready and willing to play a role, but somehow without quite knowing where to take hold, where to fit in, in what way to bring their energies to bear...
...Brooklyn-born Bergsten bailed out in 1971, later joined the Brookings Institution. A monetary-problems specialist, Bergsten warns that the West faces cartelization in timber, bauxite, rubber and coffee as well as in oil. He also cautions that Kissinger will become an anachronism if he does not pay more heed to economic questions...
...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...