Word: tear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd pushes, pats, pummels him. He is near exhaustion, but enjoying him self. "Sometimes," he says once he is back in the car, "I don't think I'm going to be able to make it." He is asked why, in view of the wear and tear, the enormous problems of the job, his wife's reluctance about his running, is he making the race. "I guess it goes all the way back to how I was raised in Italy. We grow up there respecting our parents and our priest and our teachers and our officials...
...little smaller than Versailles, but more cozy-where the child can perish in serenity. Papa assures the faithful family retainer (Bourvil) that Pascal must never know his fate, but the little rascal eavesdrops on the conversation and announces that he has known all along anyway. Everyone sheds a tear as Pascal manfully prepares to meet his fate. "I've never seen anything like that Pascal for guts," reflects the family retainer. "Well," comments Papa, "it's a hell of a way to learn the joys of fatherhood." Such scenes are punctuated by the ominous overhead rumbling of airplane...
...listening to his son preach in London's St. Paul's Cathedral and whispering what he would have shouted right out in church at home-"Make it plain, son, make it plain"; Martin as a boy beginning his stoic endurance of punishment by refusing to shed a tear during whippings administered by his father for disobedience...
...first met Vicki last June in Philadelphia when he was autographing copies of his book, Beautiful Thoughts. "He had a Band-Aid on his hand," she recalls, "and he told me it was from removing warts." For his part, Tiny, 36, was so smitten that he "shed a tear and put it in an envelope that I always keep in my ukulele...
...police followed this up a few hours later by dousing the neighborhood with tear gas. Three hundred years of prejudice, ignited by a year of tense feeling, put large parts of Ulster's cities at war with the province's police department...