Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediately ran afoul of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who asked the freshman to join him in a fight against Senate liberals who were seeking to make it easier to break filibusters. Muskie refused, and Johnson retaliated by denying him his first three choices for committee assignments. "They tell me that Lyndon trades apples for orchards every day," Muskie said ruefully. Johnson later came to appreciate Muskie as a thorough craftsman who approached his work with quiet diplomacy. In 1964, Johnson even seriously considered naming Muskie as his running mate...
Keeping Cool. Shaken, he returned to his suite. In one final gesture, which even he probably knew would be useless, he sought to end the violence, telephoning his campaign manager at the International Amphitheatre to tell him to withdraw the name of Eugene McCarthy from the balloting. "It looked," he remarked later, "like the convention might break up in chaos. I thought this might stabilize it." By then it was too late. The balloting in the convention hall had already started, and the count-and the violence below-went...
...Withering. It is too early to tell whether these tunesmiths will become the apple of the public's eye as well as of the Beatles'. Musically, only Mary Hopkin rises above the routine, and her voice still needs shading and seasoning. But of course, as long as Apple features its owner-producers as performers, it is in no danger of withering on the branch. Among its first LP releases this fall, for instance, will be the Beatles' first all-new, non-sound-track album since the epochal Sgt. Pepper...
Bike therapy totally reverses the traditional rest-and-medication treatment for emphysema. "I tell patients to do more, not less," reports Dr. Bass in Medical World News. Using $20 stationary exercising bicycles, the director of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital's pulmonary division starts his patients off with three ten-minute stints a day at the pedals. By the end of the 18-week course his cyclers are working out for 30 to 45 minutes at a time...
...tell the folks back home I'll soon be comin' , And don't let 'em know I never will be free . . . be free...