Word: weeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buildings are mostly heated by a central supply system that feeds them steam through underground lines. The main fuel in Russia is-weep, amerikantsy-natural gas, piped from Soviet Central Asia and Siberia. (The Soviet Union has one-fourth of the world's natural-gas reserves, but has instituted a widespread fuel-conservation program nonetheless.) Because natural gas is the cleanest-burning fuel of all, there is no air pollution...
Maxine does not weep easily. Her soft auburn curls and sparkling blue eyes mask the mind of a prosecutor. She grew up in bloody Harlan County, Ky., the daughter of a union lawyer twice marked for assassination. Maxine's mother shot three men she thought were after him. One afternoon Maxine walked into her home-town Harlan Enterprise and, as she recalls, "told them I knew everything that went on in the county, and they ought to hire me." They did not. She was five years...
...landed a 20-year sentence for having the instincts of an honest man when a sleazy crime of passion would have earned him a much lighter punishment. Descombes listens in silence, then softly repeats, "Twenty years. My God!" His stolid expression crumples feature by feature and he begins to weep. And this, more than Antoine's polemics, is what moves us: just a homely middle-aged man who looks even homelier when he cries...
...spectacle of a Crimson Tide loss is so rare that it comes like death to Alabama fans. "I have seen grown men weep in the stands," says Band Director James Ferguson. After the 10-7 defeat by Ole Miss this year, the unbelieving victors chanted, first wonderingly, then exultantly, "We beat 'Bama!" as Tide fans walked silently out of the stadium. In the parking lot, there was time for a consoling drink before the long drive home. Coed Vicki Schneider sobbed uncontrollably for an hour after the game. Says she: "It was the next morning before I could accept...
...next to his most blatant expedient choice. "Don't get cynical," he told them, some of whom by now were crying. "Look at yourselves and realize there are millions of Americans out there who want it to be a shining city on a hill." Nancy Reagan began to weep openly and turned her back on the audience for several minutes until she regained control of herself...