Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death and to mourn the deaths of those whom I have loved or haven't even known. The present century has become too curt over bereavement just as the 19th century was too expansive over it." Who really knew how to mourn? "The Greeks. They wept, they recovered, they recalled." What is old age? "Both by its practitioners and by its observers, it is approached too rhetorically and on too sustained a note-the whine of the gnat, the organ pedal diapasoning, the boom of the bittern, are among its musical accompaniments. The old person is assumed, and often...
Morning after the funeral, a solemn group filed into the Prime Minister's hospital room. Chief of Staff General Moshe Dayan spoke. "Sir, we have bad news for you. Nehemia is no more. He has shot himself." The old man turned his face to the wall and wept. An hour later he read Argov's letter: "I know what I am going to do will cause you pain, but I cannot do otherwise. It is not the act of a strong man, and you need strong men about...
During the morning at least ten students walked out of the school, refusing to attend integrated classes. The striking teenagers found consolation from tearful women, who wept and cried "There are niggers in our school...
...would hesitate to write this scene in a novel, for it has no sane justification except its truth. This was a handful in one room but all over the nation the mental-revolutionaries, the parlor-pinks, the living-room warriors, the mink-coated allies of the working class wept that people like myself had betrayed the holy cause of Communism-but at least I know what I stepped away from...
...night a week after the election, as John Diefenbaker and Olive sat down to chicken sandwiches and ice cream in Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel, a telephone call came from Government House. While Olive wept softly with excitement, John was informed that on the following day Governor General Massey would ask him to form a new government of Canada...