Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killed Lebanon's first and greatest Premier, brilliant, little Riad el Solh (TIME, July 30, 1951), distressed the generous heart of old Ibn Saud, autocrat of Saudi Arabia. The old lion of the desert could always count on an ally when El Solh was representing Lebanon. Ibn Saud wept and vowed to look after his old friend's widow and four daughters. Tragically in the patriarchal Arab world, El Solh died without leaving...
...Rome one day this week. Once he would have ridden on a white mule, but in 1953 he went in a black Cadillac. Crowds jammed the lovely, narrow streets of the city of Augustus, of St. Peter, of Garibaldi, of Comrade Togliatti. The cheers shook the ancient stones. Women wept. Children, perching on their fathers' shoulders, waved and repeated the shout they heard all about them: "Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa...
...sits down there on her podium and I do all the work. It just isn't fair. I work so hard so many nights and go without lunch all the time and she comes in and has her picture taken and gets all of the glory." She wept...
...trashiest: two heavyhanded pieces of political propaganda by Communist Painter André Fougeron. One, called Atlantic Civilization, had all the artistic merit of a low-class comic strip; it showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work an "imbecility," and it was too much even for Communist Poet Louis Aragon, who wrote in Les Lettres Françaises: "Fougeron's works are hastily and clumsily painted . . . We must tell André Fougeron, 'Stop here...
...broadcast. He would sit on his bed as the music played, eyes blazing as if he were on the podium, conducting energetically and singing the music to himself. When he came to a particularly affecting passage in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or his Missa Solemnis, Toscanini sometimes wept openly. Tears rolling down his cheeks, he would sit back and murmur to himself. "I cannot believe it. I cannot imagine such a man [as Beethoven...