Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warsaw watched 600,000 march. Prague staged its celebration in historic Wenceslaus Square, where citizens had wept when the Nazis swept in. Paris had a divided holiday-a traditional left-wing parade and a rival Gaullist music festival. Rome listened to speeches in the jampacked Piazza del Popolo. Peking's 200,000 celebrants chanted "Long live Sino-Soviet alliance...
...London printer named Samuel Richardson helped change the course of literary history by writing that forerunner of the modern novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Fashionable London ladies wept till the rouge ran about Serving Maid Pamela Andrews' trials at the hands of her lecherous master, and marveled at the way she held him at bay with moral philosophy or (since he was prepared to go to any lengths of force) by dropping off into swoons that rendered her cold and stiff. Everyone sighed with relief when the repulsed rapist broke down and proposed marriage to Pamela-who of course...
...when called upon to speak at a huge banquet in his honor at the old Waldorf-Astoria, he was terrified. He mumbled a few ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...
...grown up," said Mrs. Valentine with a catch in her voice. "It's a big girl now . . ." Like a mother who has watched her daughter growing away from her, "Mrs. V." was reluctantly ready to say goodbye. Silently, the staff filed by to shake her hand; several girls wept...
...stingy, as quick to unreasoning affection as unreasoning dislike. Said one bruised ex-friend: "Arthur either starts off with great loves and then hates people, or with great hates and then loves them." He also has a sense of proportion that is all his own. The man who wept while broadcasting from Washington a moving account of Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession is capable of equally sincere tears on hearing an all-girl quartet sing Down by the Old Mill Stream...