Word: weepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What's it like in Red China?" Liu Shaw-tong replied: "Would you understand me, dear friend, if I told you that I saw an old woman weep because the sun had died in China?" The dead sun - Author Liu scarcely needs to say - is the one that once shed the light of freedom and humanity in China...
...tell all; but even she is finally persuaded that her brother's neck is worth more than her father's name, remains silent when testimony paints the dead man as a brute and drunkard. Novelist Grierson's feeling: well might the ghost of Robert Anderson weep with Omar Khayyám, "Indeed the Idols I have loved so long / Have . . . sold my Reputation for a Song...
...because to each prospective employer he confessed his crime anew. Last week, however, somebody finally took George's side. Toledo's Federal Judge Frank L. Kloeb looked at the record of George's case and refused to sentence him. When poor old George began to weep, the judge cried angrily that the bank had "invited" him to steal by keeping him "a virtual pauper for at least 22 years of his life . . . "The bank ought to be indicted here," the judge said. "I have no power over these men who were members of the board of directors...
...look at the vote. There was a little minor scuffling: in Albany, N.Y., a Republican committeeman punched a Democratic poll watcher in the nose. In Seattle an old man who had waited in line for three hours was told that he had forgotten to register. He began to weep. "This," he sobbed, "is my last time." The crowd yelled: "Let him vote." He registered forthwith, voted and said happily: "I thank...
...enough to make an old salt weep. On a cruise to the Mediterranean last summer, the sleek, grey aircraft carrier Magnificent, 14,000 fighting tons and the pride of Canada's navy, began looking like a ruddy art gallery. The radio-room walls sprouted brightly colored canvases, the shipwright shop was festooned with art, so was the barber shop...