Word: weepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near a couch, that girl won't weep...
...nothing is the Anglo-Saxon "snow" derived from Sanskrit sneha, 'moisture,' or the Gaelic sneachd. Of late, unwonted newtish wetness pervades the simmering gutters, and as if for efts lies puddling on the pavements. The icicles, sad eyelids of the white-haired residences, weep down the ivy cheeks and in despair cascade in shattering barrages on the innocents below. Minutious capillary streets transmit a filthy umbrous melt to unreceptive veins, unopened sewers, and all along the byways mounds of pablumgrey constrict the traveler from...
...courage to meet the needs of its people by using its own taxing power, so it prefers the escape of letting the national government do the taxing and then return the money to the state, then the leadership of this state puts itself in an exceedingly poor position to weep over the growth of federal power...
...Viet Cong disappeared into the bushes or the earth, for they often lie hidden during the day in camouflaged holes tunneled into the sandy soil. A dead Civil Guard was carried back to camp. The men of his unit shook their heads despondently; one of them began to weep. "Happens every night," said U.S. Sergeant Antonio Duarte. "Sometimes we have two or three skirmishes going on at the same time...
...girls swept off to slavery. As the Turkish Historian Sead-dedin wrote of the capture of Constantinople by Mohammed in 1453: "Having received permission to loot, the soldiers thronged into the city with joyous hearts, and there, seizing the possessors and their families, they made the wretched unbelievers weep. They acted in accordance with the precept, 'slaughter their aged and capture their youth...