Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been warned by Vice President Lyndon Johnson that an important Southern Senator was wavering on an Administration bill. "See what you can do with him," O'Brien told a staffer. Then, as the meeting broke up, O'Brien turned to his telephone and called another Senator to thank him for a favorable vote the previous week. "I didn't want you to think we didn't notice and appreciate what you did," said O'Brien in a low Yankee twang. "The President mentioned it at the leadership meeting this morning...
...whisk, then briskly got down to the business of making peace between Kenya's two leading political parties-the K.A.D.U. and K.A.N.U.-who have been feuding interminably over who did the most to get Jomo Kenyatta released. Said Jomo. who is cautiously avoiding taking sides: "I want to thank you all for what you have done for me. Now you must help me build a united Kenya...
...paper said that reader response is running heavily in favor of the move ("Thank you for a helpful change of policy. We should stem this dirty deluge"). But some of the critical mail seemed more to the point. Sample: "This new policy is something I would have expected from a country weekly but not from one of the country's 10 best newspapers...
...Guided Elite. Buchman meant M.R.A. to be a "God-guided campaign to prevent war by moral and spiritual awakening." It failed to prevent war, and it earned considerable censure for seeming to rely heavily on "changing" dictators; Buchman had the misfortune to exclaim publicly: "I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler." After World War II, M.R.A. turned to attacking Communism...
...less compelling, but he too turned in a good performance-far more vigorous than Bayreuth audiences can expect from more familiar, beef trust-styled Wagnerian tenors. At the curtain, Wieland Wagner paid his two stars a compliment that suggests just how important American talent has become at Bayreuth. "Thank you," said Wagner, "for a new Parsifal...