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Word: wept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight later, new symptoms began to show. The patients' dark skins grew darker in patches and rose up in leathery plaques. Sometimes the skin peeled away, leaving white or pink tissue. Deeper burns wept and formed crusts. When burns were on the scalp (70% of all individuals), the hair came out by the handful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rs from the Sky | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...bewilderment, searching for the voice out of the loudspeakers. "Turn him around." someone howled. Avery struggled for his bearings, turned back and pleaded: "I can't hear that at all. What's the purpose?" (Avery's daughter, Mrs. Rogers Follansbee, a spectator at the meeting, wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Defeat for Wolfson | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...first time since Hitler marched in in 1938, Austria was within sight of a time without a foreign soldier on its soil. Cheering crowds lined the 20-mile route to Vienna, crowded the square outside the chancellery. Twice, Raab had to come out and speak. Some in the crowd wept, and Chancellor Raab's voice broke with emotion. "I must thank the Lord God that we have been able to experience this hour for Austria," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Mission to Moscow | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Leading the ticket was Morris B. Sachs, South Side garment merchant and local TV impresario (Sacks' Amateur Hour), who ran for city treasurer. In the Democratic primary, Morris Sachs went down to defeat with outgoing Mayor Martin Kennelly, wept in Kennelly's arms while cameras recorded his sorrow (TIME, March 7). Sad Sachs dried his tears when he was offered a place on the organization's ticket. In campaign speeches he recalled fondly: "I sold Dick Daley's mother the first pair of long pants for Dick. Without me, where would he be?" His reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Beer but a Book | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...night last October, Benedetto knelt beside her bed and together they recited a prayer to the Virgin Mary. Maddalena unfastened her shift and Benedetto fired into her breast, killing her almost instantly. He ran into the street weeping. His neighbors wept with him, as did the policemen who led him to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Trial of Benedetto | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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