Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group, a number of Petofi hotheads gathered together at the monument of Sandor Petofi on the morning of Oct. 23. Before a group that grew in size every minute, a young actor, holding a volume of Petofi's poems, recited a poem famous in the 1848 revolution. Many onlookers wept, and by unspoken consent it was decided to go to the statue of General Bem, the Polish general who led the Hungarians and was crushed by the Russians the following year. Without orders from anyone, the crowd formed in ranks six abreast, crossed the Chain Bridge to the west bank...
...Jersey. A few carried cardboard suitcases holding the residue of the past. Weary men in caps, somber-faced women in babushkas, children suddenly aged, paraded into the warmth of American hands. As the U.S. Army Band played Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5 hundreds of waiting Americans wept...
...thousands of refugees from stricken Hungary, peasant families, workers, students, young children with notes of identity pinned to their clothing. Once across the frontier ditch they would look back, and there would be a wild shouting of names. Women refugees kissed the first people they met, turned aside and wept. Men pulled off frozen-fingered gloves and shook hands...
...guns. Men in white coats moved from corpse to corpse sprinkling snow-white lime which transformed the dead into marblelike statuary. Where possible, rebel dead had been laid side by side and covered by the red, white and green flag of Hungary; but in one side street a woman wept alone over the body of her coal-miner husband. In another street, a rebel fighter lay in the sun, a wreath of autumn leaves on his chest. The revolution had not yet counted its dead, but a cursory estimate put the total at 15,000 (including 3,000 Soviet soldiers...
...Carpathian Mountains to bring him back. Last week the cardinal was driven by a government sedan through a cold rain to the grey stone archbishop's palace in Warsaw. Next day, after meeting with clergy from all over Poland, he went out before the waiting crowds. They cheered, wept, sang "God protects Poland...