Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shouldered young man whose machine-knitted jersey celebrated a leaping swordfish. then by a pretty young Negro woman in her best clothes with a sleeping baby in her arms. Suddenly there were too many to count, standing on the trampled grass in the blaze of lights. Some of them wept quietly, some of them stared at the ground and some looked upward...
...only enlivenment was the appearance of the 19-year-old Dalai Lama, escorted out of Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves. His presence was quite a coup: the Dalai Lama is a living God to his own people. Several years ago. uncertain of the Dalai Lama's loyalty, the Communists began to groom the exiled Panchen Lama as a rival. He is the spiritual leader of Lamaism, as the Dalai is the temporal head. Last week both the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama...
...guerre est finie!" A French paratrooper sipped his Pernod: "In France they are happy tonight. I too am glad that no more will be killed-but there is nothing for us here to be proud of." And in Hanoi's sandbagged Citadelle, where once he had wept at the fall of Dienbienphu, General Cogny put his career on the line. "The free world has not lived up to its responsibilities," said Cogny. "There have been too many deaths for too few results, too many deaths for nothing...
...more than half the seats in the new 104-man Parliament. Nkrumah's bitterest opponent, Dr. Joseph Danquah, failed to win a seat. At this unhappy news his supporters wept and rolled on the ground. Dr. Danquah's former wife, now an ardent Nkrumah partisan, was the only woman elected to Parliament...
...Taruc left San Pablo, the villagers wept. They are fanatically loyal to him, said Colonel Cabal. Taruc was driven to Camp Murphy, and the government took over. He was the biggest prize taken in the eight-year-old war against the Huk guerrillas. Looking relaxed and confident, Taruc announced that he had"come down" because of"a deep conviction of the sincerity of the President . . . to work out a program which will give peace and prosperity." Magsaysay's terms, he said,"laid the basis of negotiations," and he was now "joining the forces of law and order...