Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Russian cordiality mightily impressed a few reporters, who breathlessly watched every wrinkle on Russian faces and, like Sweet Alice, "wept with delight when you gave her a smile, and trembled with fear at your frown." Although Ben Bolt Vishinsky was smiling last week there was no evidence whatever of a real change in Soviet policy...
When the time came to leave the club, the three men drove out to the airport with the Japanese wives of Rosecrans* and Inouye. Though such farewells had become routine, the women wept as the newsmen climbed into the Army's C-54 and roared off into the night. Eight minutes later the plane exploded in midair. All eleven aboard were killed...
...harder to shield herself. "I did my work . . . But none of it meant anything . . . The hours when I really lived were when I was alone with my child . , I could let sorrow have its way . . When she wept," her child would only stare and laugh, and "it was this uncomprehending laughter which always and finally crushed my heart...
...Rome last week, for the first time in history, a mother heard her daughter canonized a saint. In a place of special honor near the papal throne, 86-year-old Assunta Goretti sat with her two sons and two daughters and wept. "My daughter, my daughter," she cried. "My little Marietta...
...question which has plagued law-abiding humans for centuries-what is justice for the distraught who kill in the name of mercy? The jury's answer: "Not guilty by reason of temporary insanity at the time of the killing." Spectators in the courtroom cheered; some of the jurors wept. It seemed certain that broken, weeping Eugene Braunsdorf-who had been judged sane when he was ordered to stand trial for murder-would be quickly freed after a new sanity hearing...