Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to the Common every Sunday afternoon to plead with their daughter to return. They stood in the middle of a large crowd, mostly hostile, while Father Feeney called them names, and their daughter publicly denounced them and called on the crowd to get rid of them. The mother wept and the father pleaded...
...graveside. When Roger himself learned that many of them had chipped in to buy him a handsome gravestone, he was deeply moved. "The thought of that tombstone," he said, "made it all become real. I thought of my poor children who had lost both father and mother. I wept. It moved me even more than the death of my own wife...
...Lanza remembered that Mayer had fought an almost lone battle to get The Great Caruso made. He telephoned Mayer to express concern and ask whether he could help the man long ranked as Hollywood's No. 1 executive. Mayer-as Lanza recalls the incident-wept tears of gratitude...
...dead King's boots were tied heels to the front in the stirrups of his pure white Arabian horse and the procession began to move, paced by the dull boom of a single cannon, fired every minute. Glubb Pasha, British chief of the Arab Legion, wept openly, wiped his eyes with his red-and-white checkered legionnaire's headdress...
...hold of a stretcher, lay down on it, and had a couple of friends carry her toward the platform. Halfway down the aisle, Mamie flipped to her feet, yelling, "I can walk! I can walk! It's the first time I've walked in 40 years!" Hundreds wept or screamed at the miracle...