Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulder, rolled over four times. Christine was only dazed when she was dragged out. She stayed overnight in a Bronx hospital, refused to see her parents, declined all food beyond a glass of orange juice. Eventually she asked: "Was that man married?" When the policewoman guarding her nodded, Christine wept at last...
...Priok, sweltering Dutch housewives and pathetic clusters of elderly women waited solemnly while customs and immigration officials examined their documents and belongings. The Indonesian officials, long famed as among the most uncooperative and most sullen in the world, were being scrupulously kind and considerate. Javanese maids in batik sarongs wept as they said goodbye to moppets they had reared from infancy. On the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, evacuees were berthed in the ship's lounge and laundry rooms...
Crutches & Cardinals. A month after she wept, the Madonna was carried at the head of a procession of 30,000 of the devout to a railway shed, where the figure was sealed in a glass-walled case topped by a brass cross. Thousands of pilgrims, including 72 bishops and archbishops and three cardinals, have flocked to the shrine of the little Madonna, now surrounded by a display of crutches and braces presumably thrown away by the cured. All day long Masses were being said, and assisting the local priests was Antonietta's husband Angelo. While the church...
...Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached him in a Paris hotel lobby, Jim Hagerty wept...
...mark an anniversary. It is one year since Castro landed 81 seasick adventurers from Mexico in an invasion that drew only derision from President Fulgencio Batista, 56. The dictator is no longer derisive. Last week, in Colon Cemetery in Havana, he dropped his broad face in his hands and wept as a guard of honor buried Colonel Fermin Cowley, 47, one of his top commanders, who was gunned down by a carload of Castro men on a downtown street near his headquarters in Holguin (pop. 36,000) in rebel-ridden Oriente province...