Word: weep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarters upon 53 acres in Farmville, the county's commercial center. The public schools struggled along in a state of mediocrity, trying to repair the damage. Vanessa Venable remembers a 13-year-old girl standing at a blackboard. She was asked to add 34 and 26. She began to weep uncontrollably. She did not even know how to write a number. So she and Mrs. Venable stood at the blackboard for long minutes, crying hopelessly together...
...graduate of the church-affiliated Hope College, he fondly cites St. Luke's characterization of a leader as "one who serves" and endorses a friend's observation that "leaders don't inflict pain; they bear pain." In one chapter he asks readers to consider what makes them weep...
Slowly the train of boxcars rolls to a halt at Kapikule, where Bulgaria becomes Turkey, and a flood of humanity spills out. Many kneel to kiss the ground. Others weep as they unload furniture, suitcases and sacks stuffed with possessions and pile them on the station platform. Military marches and battle cries of the Ottoman Empire blare from loudspeakers. A man shakes his fist at the distant Bulgarian hills and shouts, "Long live Turkey! This is the happiest day of my life...
...politics. The diversity, even the confusion, has been welcomed after decades of conformity. "We need time to get over our feeling of shock and process all this new information," says Okudzhava. "The masterpieces will come later. Now we must editorialize, speak out, make our confession and repent." And perhaps weep, like the audiences at Journey into the Whirlwind...
...helped make reggae a household word--and in the process, has made himself internationally famous. Thompson, a cult figure and a pioneer of the Celtic folk/rock movement, is one of those rare virtuosi--like B.B. King, Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler--who can make a guitar sing or weep. Both gave outstanding performances...