Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peace in Cloud Valley. Born in the small farming hamlet of Akahama in 1420, young Oda Toyo entered a Zen Buddhist temple at twelve. According to popular legend, he was a wayward boy, overfond of drawing. Tied to a wooden pillar as corrective discipline, he at first wept copiously, says legend, stopping only when his tears made a pool on the floor which he used as ink, with his toes for brushes. Oda Toyo's talent was early recognized and fostered, including apprenticeship to the painter Shubun, the leading practitioner of Chinese-style paintings of his day. Not until...
...broken marriages, a half-hearted suicide try, long sieges of nervous illness, married Agent-Producer Sid Luft. When it seemed that a star had died, Luft resurrected her, put her back on her feet in big-time vaudeville (audiences at Manhattan's Palace and London's Palladium wept on hearing again her old, nostalgic Over the Rainbow), catapulted her higher than ever in movies and on TV. But somehow the Lufts' rainbow ended in a pot of debts, piled up, according to Luft's friends, because of his unhappy knack of betting on also-ran horses...
...Frenchmen wept when they read in their newspapers one October morning in 1944 that Louis Renault had died in a Paris nursing home. He had been rich, powerful and famous, cantankerous, brilliant, often brutal, the little Napoleon of an automaking empire. But France's only eulogy for him was a grimace and an ugly word: "collaborator." Last week, in the cooler atmosphere of eleven years later, Louis Renault's widow sought a court decision to establish that Renault had not died of uremia, but had been "deliberately murdered after torture." The widow's story made big headlines...
...despite such flaws, the Salute-To-Ike dinners were an occasion for high emotions. In Flint, Mich. an audience of 635 alternated between wild cheers and near sobs. In Chicago Vice President Richard Nixon wept silently in the darkened amphitheater while Ike, speaking from Washington, expressed his thanks for the tributes that had been paid him. And Dwight Eisenhower's own eyes glistened with tears as he sat in the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel and watched the television scenes flashing from city to city, with speaker after speaker talking directly to the President, thanking...
...admirals, generals, Cabinet members and Congressmen milled for vantage with a score of newsmen and foreign diplomats. One by one the bombers buzzed past the target at about 2,500 ft. and laid their eggs. At the sixth pass, an aged officer put his head in his hands and wept, as the "unsinkable" German battleship Ostfriesland sank with a glug heard round the world-and echoed violently in military history from that day to this...