Word: weep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Praised by these, blamed by those-mocking fools, heckling the opposition I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep...
Designers of airplane propellers used to weep into their blueprints every time a jet plane roared over the plant. They feared that the fierce little jets, which have no propellers, were the wave of the future. These days the prop designers are more cheerful. The performance of Allison's XT-4O turboprop engine (5,500 h.p.) has made many airplane companies think once more in terms of propellers. The prop men are sure that propellers, drastically redesigned, can keep up even with the fastest airplanes...
...Kennedy, who could have sold the onions for $90,000 six months ago, did not weep over his loss; nor did he yell for price support. He is opposed to price supports of any kind. With a self-reliance that would shock many a Farm Bloc Congressman, Republican Kennedy asked last week: "Why should any one group pay another group support prices or anything else? It always makes me tired to hear of the Government doing this or that. The Government don't have any money unless it takes it away from you or me first...
After tests on 231 people, two ophthalmologists at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Drs. John W. Henderson and Wendell A. Prough, proved what everybody knew (or thought he knew) all along: once they start to cry, young women can weep more tears than young...