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Word: wept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mark My Words." Walter George, up for a last appeal, wept copiously as he traded emotional compliments with Republican Senator Bricker, who was in full support of the substitute. Said George: "Mark my words now, gentlemen, you are going to submit a constitutional amendment . . . You will do it now, or you will do it later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vote, Vote, Vote | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...metal as an ambulance driver on Italy's Piave front during World War I, has an artificial kneecap, bears scars from a World War II automobile accident, a collapsing ceiling and innumerable other mishaps), was dead. Newspapers all over the world ran scare headlines and obituaries, Havana waiters wept, millions of Hemingway readers expressed shock and sorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...runs in all, and Rice made a fourth touchdown in the final quarter on a 75-yd. sustained drive. Alabama lost to Rice, 28-6. Fiery Fullback Lewis apologized to Rice's Moegle for his moment of aberration. Dick Moegle grinned and said, "Forget it." Tommy Lewis, who wept unashamedly in the dressing room, moaned: "I don't think I'll ever get over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Alabama's Twelfth Man | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...hour to make sure the parents were dead. Then they put the third champagne glass into a paper sack, broke it, and departed, dropping the fragments into a sewer on their way. Two days later, Harlow came back to the apartment, found the bodies, called the police and wept hysterically at his parents' "suicides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Champagne & Cyanide | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...pictured Christmas as it used to be in the Old World, with huge copies of German, Austrian and Italian toys. In Washington, Woodward & Lothrop brought to life The Night Before Christmas, with sleeping children, animated sugar plums, Santa and his prancing steeds. In Denver, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer wept giant tears at Daniels and Fisher Stores Co., and the May Department Stores Co. built Santa's toy factory for the city's youngsters. At Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co., a delightful doll named Christmas Carol clutched a candy-striped Teddy bear on her visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Santa under Glass | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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