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Word: weep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have the same desire to live as we do," McGovern said. "Russian mothers and fathers weep for their children and are not inhuman monsters...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: McGovern Attacks U.S. Militarism, Calls for Freeze | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...Miss Cutler and Miss Jourdan, who would hire a car on Christmas Eve to drive them up and down Fifth Avenue so that they might enjoy the store displays. These were the sorts who would gather in the park and sing. Once the caroling was finished, they would not weep or embrace or say sentimental things, but merely nod and shake hands and wish one another well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Christmas in a Small Place | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...cast a gaudy glow in U.S. homes. Then Tiffany objects went out of style, and in the early 1930s their creator went bankrupt. In the late 1950s an art nouveau boom sent dealers scouring the attics of old mansions and manors for castoff Tiffany lamps. Would-be collectors may weep: a lamp much like Cobweb, which originally cost about $500, fetched a record $360,000 at auction three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shelf of Season's Readings | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...weep, Goddess? Mankind weeps with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Crumbling Parthenon | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...stereotypical image of Southern politics involves politically powerful, usually aging, men wielding great though soft-spoken influence in statehouses and Congress. But weep no more, my ladies, for this image is rapidly changing. Maryland became the first southern state to have an equally divided House delegation; Florida was the second state to elect a woman U.S. Senator in her own right, and the first to send a woman not from an important political family. Last summer, Mississippi held a hotly contested Democratic primary for governor with a woman candidate, Evelyn Gandy. Even conservative Houston, Texas has a woman mayor...

Author: By John S. Gardner, | Title: Southern Belles | 10/1/1983 | See Source »

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