Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warned that resistance would be fatal, dazed by surprise, their spirit broken since Munich anyhow, crowds greeted the first armored cars in Prague's streets in dumb despair. Later in the day they grew defiant. Whistles and jeers greeted each new squadron. Groups sang the Czech anthem and wept openly. Some shouted "Pfui! Pfui! go back home!" But the only physical resistance Herr Hitler's tanks met was a volley of snowballs. Down in Prague's Jewish district there was terror. Two lovers shot themselves, a couple jumped from their apartment window. By week...
...dogs' owner had rented the house under the name of "Everall." Arrested, she and her husband now called themselves "Mr. & Mrs. David Brown." "I did the best I could," wept Mrs. Brown. ". . . We fed them every week or so." Their lawyer said later they were really David and Eleanor Goldshur: he a philosophy instructor at San Francisco Junior College, she a student of psychology. Mr. Goldshur disclaimed any knowledge of the dogs' plight; Mrs. Goldshur explained that she was interested in "animal mass behaviorism.'' Officer Girolo said that dogs have to be "damned hungry" before they...
...playlet depicted an imaginary second Munich conference at which Mr. Chamberlain, who had just promised Chancellor Hitler "all of Africa by 2 p. m. next Saturday," asked: "What would you have said, Adolf, if I had answered 'No' when you asked for the Sudetenland?" The German Chancellor wept into his sleeve, replied: "Ach, Mr. Chamberlain. You wouldn't have been an English gentleman...
...Faucher, for 20 years head of France's military mission in the former Czechoslovakia. During the recent crisis General Faucher resigned his commission in the French Army, offered his services to President Benes. Reviewing a guard of honor at the station in Prague, the General wept as he kissed the flag of the country whose army he had so largely created himself. As his train pulled out, a military band played the stately music of the Sambre et Meuse March, while Czech and Slovak officers, tears in their eyes, stood at the salute...
Modern Turkey last week lost her foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha...