Word: weepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim to regret the passing of the new bill. indeed, its birth has killed one of the college man's best ploys for impressing his friends. And accompanying it to the grave has gone many a student's vacation. Still, only a few weep at the funeral...
...virtue. He would prance into a brothel "playing drunkard and whoremonger with all the vocabulary at my command"-only to find himself clutching the hand of a fallen sister and begging her to reform. He even took one young prostitute to live with him and "encouraged her to weep over her vile life." He "read books to her every night," while she "lay nude . . . listening like one bewitched." Disillusionment came when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting...
...significance of "those green pieces of paper," protecting his trusting five year old sister from the sinister hunter, he endures hardships as only a child could: "the most dreadful and moving thing of all was the humbling grace with which these small ones accept their lot. They would weep at a broker toy but stand with the courage of a burning saint before the murder of a mother. . . They abide...
...time it seemed that his chance for a personal domain might come. But when, in the blazing Asiatic heat, he was himself defeated by the Turks, his spirit faded. When he was poisoned by a disgruntled court politician, no one was surprised. Matilda did not even weep; she took herself to a nunnery...
Going Back. Early next morning, the three prisoners woke up. One of the guards started to weep, demanding that Christakis give him his gun. "He wouldn't quit." said the younger brother, "so I let him have it in the leg. I should have shot the captain for waking him, but it's bad to kill people." At noon, the strange party landed at the Greek island of Corfu and gave themselves up. To newsmen's questions about their escape from Communism, the soldiers would say nothing, but the captain was just as outspoken in denunciation...