Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what could I do? I had to fight." A reporter mentioned the bosses. "Unbreakable, just unbreakable, aren't they?" said Kennelly. The results: Daley 364,839; Kennelly 264,775. Merchant Morris B. Sachs, a friend and defeated running mate, kissed Kennelly's cheek, and both men wept...
Toby Green put down the phone and wept...
...orders from his chief, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. With another Cabinet member, Stanton hurried from the bedside of Seward to the tailor's house and set up a frantic headquarters there. While the President lay bleeding in a hall bedroom and Mrs. Lincoln screamed and wept in the front parlor, Stanton "convened a special court of inquiry . . . issued orders, wrote messages . . . summoned high personages . . . and took the reins of government...
...much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees, and men and women in the audience wept...
...Joye in her diary: "I can't weep any more, and my lair would be snow-white if I didn't dye it." She dreaded giving up Paul, but she could not resist claiming Ernstli. After the boys were switched back to their real mothers, Ernstli wept for days, but soon stopped addressing Mrs. Joye as "Madame" and started calling her "Maman." Mrs. Joye's unpretentious account is bound to give imaginative parents plenty to think about next time they take a baby home from the maternity ward...