Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second and third helpings every time it was on the menu. To still another, mashed potatoes was such a delightful new experience that now she could not get enough of it. Some had never had a bed to call their own, others had never slept on sheets, and some wept with pleasure on seeing their bedrooms. Each girl has two roommates and a bed, closet and dresser to herself...
...helped with the applause. She was usually clad in a blue sari (her party color), and spoke from platforms adorned with a picture of her husband, the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Though she no longer wept in public when recalling her husband, Madame was still campaigning in his memory, promising to follow his policies, which "stood for the middle path in politics." She argued that "the cooperation of the Marxists is essential for the progress of socialism in the country...
...went back to the party. She collapsed on a couch and took off her shoes. I saw a friend and went to tell him what had happened. Instead I wept. A girl came up to ask what was going on. My friend told her to go away...
...days when defense lawyers spouted Scripture and wept real tears, Americans had the time of their lives at public trials. "People came for miles to hear those closing arguments," recalls a nostalgic Georgia judge. "It was almost like a Shakespearean festival." Today, sensational murder trials still draw S.R.O. audiences. But at a time when everyone frets over rising crime, hardly anyone attends the normal felony trial, to say nothing of misdemeanors. From where he sits in Texas, a state that once loved litigation even more than football, San Antonio's Criminal Court Judge Archie Brown flatly says: "The empty...
...riddle of life, the riddle of death, the enchantment of genius, of unadorned beauty-these things were ours," wept the beautiful Lara over the body of her lover, Dr. Zhivago. "But the small problems of practical life-things like the reshaping of the planet "these things, no thank you, they are not for us." Soon afterward, the heroine of Poet Boris Pasternak's great novel was arrested by Soviet secret police "and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the concentration camps of the north." Lara...