Word: weepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need weep for the brokers or their firms. Though profits on commission transactions will be off from last year, the average 16% that the firms earn on invested capital compares well with any other line of U.S. business. Then, of course, there are those celebrated Wall Street Christmas bonuses -even though many brokers are cutting back a bit. At Merrill Lynch, biggest of all, employees with more than 20 years' service, who collected an ex tra 23 weeks' salary last Christmas, will get only 22 weeks extra this year. Five-to ten-year men will get 17 weeks...
...material for America and I Sat Down To gether, a collection of seven poems commissioned by Holiday magazine, some of which have also been published in his homeland. Evtushenko writes sadly of a trip to an Alaska fur farm (He who's conceived in a cage will weep for a cage); sharply of famous people (Allen Ginsberg-cagey prophet-baboon -thumps his hairy chest as a shaman thumps a tambourine); sentimentally of his visit to a steelworker's home (I love America, the America who now sits with me). His distaste for immense, impersonal bureaucracy is suggested...
...presidential race recalls to memory the words of Essayist William Hazlitt: "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." I weep...
Humphrey is prone to weep on almost any occasion; his sensitivity to bright lights occasionally causes the tears to flow, but his emotionalism is more often the cause. He is often too anxious to please, too easily swayed, too inclined to think that everyone is basically a decent fellow. He talks too much. On the other hand, he has limitless energy, infectious enthusiasm, a quick and absorptive mind, and unquestionable idealism and commitment to the shaping of a better America. He is, further, a formidable man on the stump. Without doubt he has greater warmth and conveys greater sincerity than...
Whup 'em or Weep. Most of that money was gouged from the hard-baked Western soil in which the sport has its roots. A cross between the pioneer plow horse and the Mexican mustang, the quarter horse was bred for the short bursts of speed needed to herd cattle. To fill the lonesome hours, cowpokes began match-racing for payday stakes and, as one oldtimer put it, "if you couldn't whup the guy you beat, you didn't get your money." Before long, horsemen were organizing races at state and county fairs across the West. Whole...