Word: weep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minimum-wage law, which protects the lowest-paid of our workers, have been drastically cut. And the farmer, who lives with greater economic hazards than perhaps any of us, is being told that he ought to 'go it alone' again . . . You should hear the farmer weep and wail and ask forgiveness for voting as he did last fall...
...serials (radio's prewar high: 65) are still fixed in the daytime hours of NBC (12) and CBS (14). The two major networks have thoughtfully arranged their soap blocks so that a housewife so inclined could begin her day with Rosemary at 11:45 a.m. on CBS, weep her way through 6¼ hours until the final orchestra strains of NBC's The Doctor's Wife...
...much of this and get by. A dress that goes well at a cocktail party might fit in at a wedding, but the chances are it won't." Just how this exacting code arose, or why women adhere to it, is as inexplicable as why the female may weep when she is happy...
...white uniforms. While a few girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March north for unification)." The leaders glanced frequently at their directions on bits of note paper. Soon one among the leaders began to sob and weep. Younger girls took the cue, contorted their faces with grimaces of rage and fury. The chant became shrill, strident, then hysterically out of hand. The girls perspired, waved their arms, shouted, clenched their fists. One little girl about twelve hurled herself at a guard, and all order vanished...
Guns & Slingshots. But Rome's students did not see to pay attention. Hardly had the bells stopped tolling when another schoolboy, Filiberto Accica came home to weep over his failing grades in Latin and Greek. All day and all night he shut himself in his room, brooding as Giuseppe had. On Sunday morning, in the bright spring sunshine, he opened his window and jumped to his death. For his Greek professor, Filiberto left a note: "I do not kill you, I kill myself...