Word: weep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weep for my country...
...would be too paralyzed by the spectre of Vietnam, and by flimsy notions of law, to take appropriate action. Now that the Administration has called this bluff, the prospects facing Nicaragua are not pleasant ones. But as unfortunate as their miscalculation may be, it is hardly our placed to weep for these aggressive "victims." James Matthews...
...corridor, Amrit Kaur sat with her head swathed in a blood-soaked bandage. "My husband was burned alive. My children were beaten senseless. Then my house was set on fire. My children could not come out, and they were burned inside." With that she broke down and began to weep...
...provinces, as well as Shanghai, its largest city. The operator of a small retail business tells a foreigner on a train in central China that several dozen house-church leaders are under arrest in the city of Xian. Says the businessman: "All we can do is pray and weep for them." A Protestant writes a letter telling of public notices posted in Fuyang, west of Shanghai, ordering Christians not to share their faith beyond that city or to listen to short-wave Gospel broadcasts. A woman evangelist, one of 130 house-church leaders from Henan province who are in hiding...
...querulous tone of this political year is also reflected in ads prepared by the National Republican Congressional Committee, in which portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson appear to weep over the purportedly high-handed tactics of the Democratic majority. The commercials, aired in Washington and on the Cable News Net work, accuse the Democrats of "bottling up" a Senate-passed crime-control bill and "falsifying congressional records." (A House Democratic staffer resigned last year after he admitted altering the remarks of G.O.P. members in hearing transcripts.) The Democrats had drawn first blood last month, when O'Neill ordered...