Word: sob
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...river. She had seen the man before, she knew the blotchy complexion of his torso. It was Frederick. He was naked, weeping, singing, and frenetically stripping bark from the branch in little strips. They fell into the stream and floated gently away, heedless of Frederick’s wracking sobs. Roxanna barely managed to keep silent, so great was the urge to cry out in horror and pity. She threw herself back over the edge of the hill, and, burying her face in the folds of her dress, wept for some minutes. A feeling began to rise from her stomach...
...quietly sob over my books in Lamont, I am heartened when I think back to that day. Just as our New England forefathers experienced hardship between the explosion of the Fourth and the glow of Thanksgiving, we too face the autumn doldrums. And while the Founders may have turned to prayer and corn cultivation for comfort, thoughts of buffalo and floral genitalia provide all the nourishment I need...
...hard to keep track. She had slept with all the servants, but it hadn’t seemed to help.Felicity collapsed wearily on the edge of an ornamental pool. The fountain in the middle sputtered weakly. Looking at that laughably small column of water, Felicity wanted to sob. Her beauty was fading; she looked pale and wan, and even the fumbling attentions of the under-gardener in the bougainvillea had failed to give her any pleasure.Why couldn’t she forget him? Felicity asked herself. She had fled to Italy. She had replicated his caresses with dozens of eager...
...SOB," President Franklin D. Roosevelt said about then Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. "But he's our SOB." That lesser-evil outlook might just as easily have described the U.S. attitude toward Pakistan's General-turned-President Pervez Musharraf, who resigned on Aug. 18 in the face of looming impeachment. Nor was it only the West that saw Musharraf as preferable to the chaos and venality of the political system he overturned to seize power in 1999. He carried the support of the urban middle class, which was desperately looking for the stability and modernity that had eluded a political system...
...Axing transfer admissions has created a surfeit of sob stories, most of which ought to be neither trivialized nor ignored. But at the end of the day, the outrage from current Harvard students has been somewhat surprising. After all, it was out of attentiveness to undergraduates’ direct personal interests that the administration made the decision to banish transfers. Just three days prior to the move, rising seniors in Winthrop House had been casually informed that, thanks to a looming Malthusian crisis, the cushy senior suites they’d be expecting would be replaced by bunk beds...