Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of her career typecast as a termagant, came forward in Manhattan's Rainbow Room and accepted the American Theater Wing's Tony Award as the best musical actress of the season. "Up to now, I've always been such a good nominee," the whacky Mame wept happily. Some of the other winners: Richard Kiley, 44, judged the best musical actor for his Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha; Rosemary Harris, 38, best dramatic actress, in The Lion in Winter; Hal Holbrook, 41, best dramatic actor, for Mark Twain Tonight; and sardonic Producer David Merriclc...
...begins with a patronizing sketch of her mother's dim life-pious, faithful, impoverished, with only one book dedicated to her, and that "published at the author's expense." She had not wept for her father, and she told her sister that it would be "the same for Maman." Yet, on the night that her mother went under the knife, "I went home; I talked to Sartre; we played some Bartok. Suddenly, at eleven, an outburst of tears that almost degenerated into hysteria. Amazement...
...fellow who wept because he had no shoes until he met the man who had no feet probably felt a little like the Harvard baseball team does today: our hitting may be pretty weak, but Princeton...
When the time came for the vote, the M.P.s were released from party discipline to cast their ballots in accordance with their consciences. The result was a surprise setback for the party leaders: by 143 to 112, the M.P.s voted to retain the death penalty. Solicitor General Larry Fennel wept openly. It is now his task to review the cases of men under sentence of death, and to recommend who should live and who be executed...
...than five policemen are watching me. This is the perfect Kafka situation but you will pardon me if I do not consider it any longer funny . . . There is a church here for those who are solitary and the comfort you obtain from it is non-existent though I have wept many times there . . . Incidentally I smell...