Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother, and more mother to me than any mother could ever have been. I was immensely proud of her. I shone in the reflection of her green-eyed black-haired gypsy beauty . . . She was innocent and guileless and infinitely protectable. She was naive to the point of saintliness and wept a lot at the misery of others. She felt all tragedies except her own. I knew that I had a bounden duty to protect her above all other creatures. It wasn't until thirty years later, when I saw her in another woman, that I realized I had been...
...suppose the youngsters will call me a Mother Beatle," chirped Grade Fields, as she skittered onstage at Blackpool for a comeback after three years of goodbye on the Isle of Capri. To the oldsters, however, their sassy honey was still "Our Grade," and 3,000 of them stomped, clapped, wept and cheered for more as she hummed through her old routines, from by-crikey wheezes to such sticky trademarks as Now Is the Hour. "It isn't the money-I'm not starving, you know," murmured Gracie, who in her prime hived up to $750,000 a year...
Visiting burned and wounded air-raid victims, Makarios wept as he was surrounded by sobbing relatives. He denounced Turkey's "cowardly, barbaric and brutal attack" and cried that Ankara would never succeed, because "Greeks die but do not surrender...
Throughout the land, Indians wept and fasted for the remainder of the day. As the news slowly spread to the remote provinces, some feared that Nehru's passing would trigger war or natural disasters-and, in fact, Delhi was twice shaken by earth tremors. Many gathered to chant: "May Nehru live long after his death...
...channel last July, and the onrushing Nile threatened 5,000 workers in the incompleted turbine shafts, thousands of fellahin swarmed in with sand and other fill, saved the whole project from disaster. An amazing spirit swept through the hot, dusty camp as D (for Diversion) Day neared. Drivers actually wept when their trucks broke down; Arab laborers swarmed in like ants when Soviet excavators halt ed for maintenance, toted tons of granite in baskets on their backs. More than 200 workers died in accidents...