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Word: weeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with its cross and holy pictures. Someone opens it, and some children are carried up to kiss the dead child. Then the mother comes and sobs, "My child, my most loved one, why has He taken you from me?" And the old great-grandmother, Guadalupe Cruz, also comes to weep over...

Author: By Sage Sohier, | Title: Glimpse of a Mexican Village | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

Comrade Messiah? As it was, the only negative sentiment was voiced by former Party Secretary-General Arieh Eliav. "This program is brought before us with the lashing of the whip of time and the scourge of haste and panic!" he shouted. "There are many in this land whose souls weep in silence because of this document. I will be the voice of the ideological Jewry of silence and never, at no price and in no forum, will I ever vote for this document." Sneered Golda Meir: "I have lived through 50 years of political activity and never before have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Battle of the Generals | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...blow up the plane in the air. Libyan officials finally relented. The Japanese terrorist told the passengers that the skyjacking had been done for the "whole of the world." It was also intended to expose the "imperialism" of Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Japan. Then he started to weep and apologized for "causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene: "Passengers were barely clear before a wisp of black smoke curled out of the cockpit. A tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flight to Nowhere | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...implausible figure of Muammar Gaddafi that has acquired the role of an Arab Parsifal. He is a mere 31 years old, handsome, devout, ardent, even fanatical. "The Arabs need to be told the facts," he is fond of saying. "The Arabs need someone to make them weep, not someone to make them laugh." Nasser once told the young Gaddafi: "You remind me of myself when I was your age." Gaddafi was profoundly moved. To be the new Nasser is his obsession-to succeed where Nasser failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...Israeli, as a Jew, as a human being, I can say nothing. I weep; I pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1973 | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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