Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women in the audience wept...
When the curtain came down last week on a new production of Carmen at the Marseille Opera House, the thunderous ovation was so moving that Don José laid his head on Carmen's shoulder and wept noisily. He had good reason. In the previous performance, part of the audience had greeted the tenor with something less than cheers; he had, in fact, been pelted with bunches of carrots, turnips and radishes. Even oldtime Marseille residents could not recall a more enthusiastic operatic riot...
...conceded that his defense was brilliant. Adela pictures Darrow sitting morosely in court, Rogers doing his best to pep him up. Long before the trial was over, writes Adela, Darrow was assured of acquittal; but he almost convicted himself by making a two-day speech to the jury. Darrow wept so much that his sleeves looked as if they had been "plunged into a rain barrel." Obviously piqued that Darrow's reputation outshines daddy's, Adela claims that Darrow was guilty and should have gone to jail, though hardly anyone else agrees...
...fist fights among the delegates. Finally, just after Kallas opined that Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser "is lower than dirt under my feet," the Egyptians denounced "this comedy of curses" and stormed out of the conference. The League's Secretary-General Abdel Khalek Hassouna sat back and wept...
Widow's Sob. Not a Cossack but a sugar refinery worker, Roman Popovich, 57, wept with joy outside his home in the Ukraine in front of the photographers who gathered to catch his reaction at the news of his son's landing. In the Chuvash Republic, Anna Nikolayev, 62, a widowed peasant woman, tugged at her handkerchief and sobbed. Newspapers all over the world carried the photos...