Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first test was a dismal flop. So was the second. For Peenemünde, the third test was do or die. On Oct. 3, 1942, the A-4 soared supersonically to a history-making height of nearly 60 miles, functioned perfectly. Peenemünde's men danced and wept in their joy. Walter Dornberger turned to Wernher von Braun. "Do you realize what we accomplished today?" he asked. "Today the spaceship was born...
...Anne Frank did, right up to the end. Said a survivor: "I can still see her standing by the door, watching a group of naked young gypsy girls being shoved along to the crematory. Anne watched them, weeping. And she also wept when we filed past Hungarian children waiting, twelve hours naked under the rain, for their turn to enter the gas chamber. Anne cried: 'Look at their eyes!' She wept when most of us had no tears left...
...told him: 'You must make a decision one way or the other. This is the point of no return.' He begged me for more time; I told him if he refused our demands, it would be a war of brother against brother. Sukarno broke down and wept...
...hours after jettisoning his third wife in a Nevada court, money-laden Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 58, took a fourth: Phoenix Socialite Mary Lou Hosford, 32, mother of four and star of a Whitney-produced movie titled The Missouri Traveler. Sonny Whitney wept at the wedding. Earlier he had celebrated his divorce decree by pounding his chest and exulting: "I'm a free man." But as far as the State of New York and wife No. 3, onetime singer and airline receptionist Eleanor Searle Whitney, were concerned, Multimillionaire Whitney was mixed up: two months ago a New York...
...Wept. The Lion felt Nehru's anger and knew that his disciple and Deputy Premier, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, was plotting to take power. "One day," he said, "I called a confidential meeting of the party and said that if they wanted a new leader in whom they could have unqualified trust I would be the first to welcome him. Bakshi said right away, 'Who is the man who wants to take over from you, Sheik Sahib?' and I said: 'You, Bakshi.' And Bakshi wept...