Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, while some of his audience wept, he counseled against downheartedness, "for there is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see, and to see, we have only to look.'' The voters of the U.S. had made their choice "in a vigorous partisan contest," and partisanship "is democracy's life blood." Ultimately, "our cause will prevail"; until then, "there are things more precious than political victory-there is the right to political contest." And, said he with a wry grin, "as for me, let there be no tears. If I lost an election...
...days later 71 marine wives and children set sail from Yokohama aboard another Navy transport. On the dock, a G.I. band played I Love You Truly and the Marine Corps Hymn. From the upper decks, the wives waved, blew kisses, wept. As the ship got ready to sail, the passengers suddenly unfurled paper signs: "Pate's Paupers," "Love, Cherish and Be Transferred," "Un-American," "Shanghaied." The most cutting of all was a sign emblazoned with the abbreviation of the Marine slogan, "Semper Fi"; next to it was a picture of what Americans in ordure-treasuring Asia called a "honey...
...tragedy bows to contrivance which teeters on the brink of absurdity; the writing turns from archaic simplicity to perfervid pleading. Unfortunately for her purpose, the characters who seem most alive are the women : the silly, gabbling, pitiable gossip, Mrs. Plopler, and the bereft Sarah, who had wept so much that "the ocean had drained away, and she cried now with only the pebbles on the beach...
...their lives. General George Washington, taken by surprise, galloped down from his headquarters at the northern end of the island (now Coogan's Bluff, overlooking the Polo Grounds). "Take the wall," he shouted. "Take the cornfield." When the militiamen rushed unheeding past him, according to some accounts, he wept, hurled his hat to the ground and roared, "Are these the men with which I am to defend America?" Then for a long time he sat on his horse in a daze, so that the British troopers advancing north from Murray Hill would have been...
...says. "She and my father even used to take me to dances and set me on the bandstand while they danced." He bought her furs and a big diamond ring, and sought her advice constantly. When he toured, she would follow him around the country. When she died, Duke wept in his sister's arms. As for his father, Duke had long since made him road manager of his band...