Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went on the air to tell his people that Majali and the other dead were "victims of aggression and stabbing in the back." That afternoon crowds applauded and cheered the young King as he rode through Amman. "I have lost an elder brother," he said of Majali-and wept...
Winding up a three-month tour of the Soviet Union, thicket-topped Pianist Van Cliburn, 26, beyond dispute the Russians' favorite American, played, sang and wept through a televised farewell concert, also posed with two other TV stars, Belka and Strelka, the Soviet space dogs. Presented with his tour earnings of roughly $8,000, Cliburn, not permitted to take the money back to the U.S., passed up a chance to shoot the wad on a luxurious...
...precede death. On April 14, 1930 Poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky changed his shirt. Then he slipped a cartridge into his revolver and played Russian roulette. He lost. According to his friend Boris Pasternak, "the news rocked the telephones, blanketed faces with pallor ... [people] all the way up the staircase wept and pressed against each other." It was a blow from which Soviet literature has never quite recovered, for Mayakovsky was the unchallenged laureate of the revolution. A critic named Josef Stalin flatly acclaimed him as "the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch...
...Governor Paul Fannin from nominating Barry Goldwater for the presidency. The hall thundered with a Goldwater demonstration. Youngsters carrying standards bearing his picture marched down the aisles; a brass band of Arizona Indians trooped along behind them. In the family box, Margaret Goldwater and her daughter Peggy wept...
...worthwhile speeches in the heat of their delivery; the faces of big and little politicians with their masks down; and some great human interest moments, as when Senator Barry Goldwater's teen-age daughter leaned out of her box during the floor demonstration for her father and literally wept into an NBC microphone. But the networks' competitive zeal, their cameras poking at every face and their microphones inching up to every mouth, reached a point of diminishing returns. Too often TV reporters were not covering events but only themselves trying to create events. Candidates caught in motorcade after...