Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flashed across the finish line a length and a half in front of Hasty Road (time: a fast 2:03 for the mile-and-a-quarter), Jockey York rode back to the winner's circle and planted a fervent kiss on Determine's winning nose. Then he wept. York, who had ridden Determine in six of seven stakes victories this year, figured that the 80th Kentucky Derby "was Determine's best race-and the best race of them...
...miles at top speed to Sydney. At the airport, an angry crowd mobbed the Cadillac, tried to overturn the car. The Russian guards dragged Evdokia through the gates while the mob, now 3,000 strong, chanted "Don't let her go." Trying to smile for photographers, Evdokia wept instead, covered her face with both hands. Scores jumped the fence onto the field, broke past police lines to tug at Evdokia and strike at her guards. Witnesses said they heard her cry in Russian: "I don't want to go! Save me!" before she was hustled aboard...
Divorced. By Zsa Zsa Gabor, thirtyish, Hungarian-born cinemactress (Moulin Rouge): her third husband, Hollywood Cinemactor George Sanders, 48, (Call Me Madam); after five years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wept Zsa Zsa: "Sanders is a born bachelor. I tried everything . . . Marriage makes him unhappy...
...fourth bride. Last week, back in Manhattan after two futile days of rushing around the capital and trying to talk to the right people, Haymes took Rita nightclubbing. They were joined by table-hopping New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons, who reported that he scribbled while Haymes wept. "If I could change my bones, my flesh," Haymes cried. "No, no second beginning. I know this land and love it ... When I leave, I guess I'll just say, 'America, forgive me.' " Murmured Rita: "Well, they're set to fry us, and we're ready...
Lulu Perez, carried away by the unexpectedly easy victory, wept for joy, and his handlers covered his head with a towel for fear the fans would think their man a softie. The crowd, many of them from Willie's home town of Hartford, Conn., booed and jeered the champ, cracked that Willie had given far less than his all. New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry had no patience with such speculation: "Any evil talk is a slur on a once-great fighter who took the beating of his life. The result speaks for itself. This...