Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There, the Red Guards were running riot. Into a Canton barbershop burst a squad of Red Guards, accusing the barbers of using "capitalist-smelling" pomade. The barbers struck back, and two teen-age Guards fell, slashed to death. In a Peking side street, a woman wept as her neighbor was led away-but she was weeping for joy. The old man had once hired her for the humiliating duty of wet-nursing his children...
...Britain's imperial traditions. A member of the royal family usually flew out to hand over the articles of independence. The governor general was on hand in his gold-braided uniform and cocked hat. Tribal dancers exploded in bare-breasted ecstasy. Then, promptly at midnight, bullnecked district officers wept openly as a bugle sounded and the Union Jack came down...
...whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered to half-mast, and people wept in public...
...care anything about Latin girls," cried Miss Ecuador before the judging. "The European girls get better food, and they are the ones who are photographed," sobbed Miss Argentina. Sure enough, Miss Sweden, Margareta Arvidsson, 18, was crowned Miss Universe in Miami. No pleasing some people-she wept too. "I don't want it," she groaned. "Now I won't be able to go anywhere without a chaperone." By next morning the sea captain's daughter had recovered. Said she: "I don't remember anything about last night...
...Dichter, Hendl vetoed it on the grounds that dividing leading prizes weakened their impact. The jury voted, Sokolov won, and the crowd promptly went wild-for Dichter. Five hundred Russians who had stayed until 2 a.m. to hear the results, kept chanting "Bravo Dichter! Bravo Dichter!", and several women wept and pressed flowers into his outstretched hands. For once it appeared that in Russia, it was not whether you won, but how you played the music...