Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days in his 131-ft. sloop, the Tinkerbelle-Manry was given a Cleveland reception that few celebrities and no other copyreaders have received. Ohio Governor James Rhodes greeted him and his family at the airport, praised him as "the epitome of dedication and devotion to sailing." His wife wept. A motorcade took him to Cleveland's Public Square, where he was met by 3,000 well-wishers, many of them sporting blue and white Manry buttons passed out by his newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...Spain, a necklace from Emperor Franz Josef, a fan from King Umberto of Italy, wore them all with élan. One admirer even ordered her a bicycle from Tiffany's studded with diamonds and rubies. Victor Hugo, after Sarah's performance in his play Hernani, wrote: "I wept. That tear ... is yours." He enclosed a tear-shaped diamond...
...debtors, many psychiatrists detect a glint of masochism. "Consider the language of debt," says Manhattan's Dr. Harold Greenwald. "People have to 'beat someone out of his money,' or debtors are 'pushed to the wall' by their creditors." One of Greenwald's patients wept after he paid off his last creditor; he felt as if he were leaving someone who needed him. San Francisco's Dr. Alfred Auerback believes that overwhelming debt creates enormous tensions and strains within families. "Young people today," says he, "assume they should have a car, a television...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. dinner in Washington, longtime United Steelworkers President David McDonald broke down and wept. Later, he asked well-wishers to "say a prayer...
Macmillan was speaking to Jacquelin, Caroline, John Jr., Bobby and Teddy Kennedy who, with Britain's royal family, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson, were dedicating a memorial to the late President at Runnymede. "With all their hearts, my people shared his triumphs, grieved at his reverses and wept at his death," said Queen Elizabeth, as she gave to the U.S. an acre of British soil on which stood a simple, white stone monument, 10 ft. wide and 5 ft. high. Shaded by a hawthorne tree and overlooking the Thames, it bears a passage from Kennedy's inaugural address...