Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homebody Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 33. After bearing five little Ferrers in eight outwardly placid years of marriage, Rosie called on that grim reaper of cinematic matrimony, Lawyer Jerry Giesler, to file for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty. "This will come as a surprise to all our friends," wept Rosie, "but it was no sudden decision on my part. Joe and I have had a difference of opinion as to a way of life, and for the children's sake, we feel it is best...
...Pappy. Ma returned happily to her garden and her family, and when, in 1932, her husband told her it was time to run again, she reportedly wept for three nights. But she gamely took off her apron and returned to politics, winning a second lackluster term by 3,000 votes. By 1940, when the aging Farmer Jim instructed her to try one more time, the Ferguson flame had guttered out. Ma was beaten by, of all people, W. Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, a flour miller and hillbilly singer. After Jim Ferguson died in 1944, Ma retired...
...Washington. Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Flames licked through dry grasses and gutted 24 luxury homes in Hollywood Hills. Destroyed were Author Aldous Huxley's two-story house, his manuscripts and mementos of a lifetime. While firemen restrained the nearly blind British author from running into the blaze. Huxley wept like a child...
...Smiling, made its point a little too muscularly. But this made no difference. By the first, trumpet-clear, high hard note in the first verse, the woozy feeling had disappeared. Judy swung into a bouncy Almost Like Being in Love, blared with humor in Puttin' On the Ritz, wept her words in The Man That Got Away, and brought down the first-act curtain with a ringing, roistering San Francisco. Long before this, the neutral auditor had realized again (one goes through this every time Judy Garland comes to town) that untidy life, maudlin fans and cornball repertoire...
...Estenssoro, the man who led the 195 2 revolution, realizes that his movement will fail unless Bolivia solves its problems, and soon. Even the tin miners' Lechin, now the nation's Vice President, may understand that time is growing short. Visiting in Washington six weeks ago, Lechin wept publicly when the Inter-American Development Bank granted Bolivia a $10 million loan...