Word: sob
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...echoed by a 49-year-old man who had watched from a hiding place among nearby palm trees. When I asked if he was related to any of the dead, his face crumpled. "Yes," he replied hoarsely. "Five of them were cousins." Then the big man began to sob...
...walls of Lahib Nouman's home don't just talk, they howl. They scream in terror, shout with rage, moan in pain and sob with frustration. All the emotions overloading this tiny woman's brutalized mind she projects onto the walls of her living room. She scrawls on them with maroon lipstick, ocher spray paint and gray lumps of charcoal, in Arabic and a sprinkling of French. It's the only way she knows to exorcise her mental demons, to preserve what remains of her sanity. "There's so much inside here," she says, slapping violently against the side...
...contours of shrapnel buried in his gut. A teenage girl, no more than 15, whimpered at my feet, pawed at my legs and cried, "They've killed my husband. They've killed my mother, my father, my brother ?" But before she could finish, others were pushing her aside to sob out their own litanies of loss. In this heart of darkness, nobody has a monopoly on grief...
...frosh, ignore anything that sophomoric sophomores or jaded juniors may tell you. Particuarly ignore the sob-stories of seniors anxious to re-live their youth. The truth is, things aren’t so bad—these heartwarming stories will prove that beyond doubt. And who doesn’t secretly love sticky rice, HUDS style...
...Express. By 1985, when Weill lost a power struggle with white-bread Amex CEO James D. Robinson III and was ousted as president, it wasn't because Weill was Jewish. He was just outmaneuvered. And he left as a multimillionaire. It's difficult for Langley to set a good sob story at Weill's palatial New York City apartment, his Greenwich, Conn., mansion and his daily lunch table at the Four Seasons...