Word: weeps
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...most specifically that they should never shed tears, was enshrined during the 19th century in the Spartan code of English public schools, which popularized the doctrine of the stiff upper lip, and was articulated by many writers, from early Victorian Charles Kingsley ("Men must work, and women must weep") to late Victorian "Mr. Dooley" ("Among men . . . wet eye manes dhry heart...
...Prime Minister was one of the few people to weep for Mengistu, whose brutal 14-year dictatorship -- the last hard-line Marxist-Leninist regime in Africa -- had turned his nation of 51 million people into a wasteland of famine and internecine fighting. In the streets, hundreds celebrated the tyrant's departure, cheering as workmen dismantled a huge bronze statue of Lenin in one of the capital's main squares. The Israeli government took advantage of the confusion to launch a massive airlift of some 14,000 Ethiopian Jews who had fearfully gathered near the Israeli embassy (10,000 had been...
Decades later, a letter can make you laugh or weep all over again. But a phone call? It's nothing but a few hundred million electrons, shot through a wire and then dissolved into a sea of disorganized memory. A letter lasts. You can read it thousands of time, savoring the prose...
...only weep Anne B. Sereno...
...would mean one life in exchange for the thousands, or tens of thousands, who might die if the battle continued. British Prime Minister John Major spoke for many people around the world when, alluding to the prospect of Saddam's murder, he said, "I for one will not weep...