Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showdown in every sense of the word. Scuffles erupted in the council corridors between opponents and supporters of rent control. Women wept. Men cursed. Some women cursed. When the council, for the second time, voted down the convention's bill, for its supporters it was as if the guys in the black hats had shotgunned the guys in the white hats and had then ridden off into the sunset...
...mandatory life sentence. The judge reasoned that the prosecution's contentions ruled out manslaughter or second-degree murder. The all-or-nothing choice, however, made conviction more difficult. After two hours and 50 minutes, the eleven women and one man voted for acquittal. Pollard's mother, Rebecca, wept bitterly: "I didn't look for them to find him guilty. All whites stick together...
...them," she said. A reporter friend told her that they were scattered throughout the train, perhaps 20 cars in all. She insisted, "I'll go see them." And so she did, teasing some and comforting others. After going through the entire train, she returned to the casket, and wept...
...damage was so extensive that Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, a 1924 graduate himself (seven of Japan's ten postwar Prime Ministers attended Tokyo University), wept when he visited the scene. Dazed professors walked through ravaged offices and laboratories, ankle-deep in rubble and water. Even the marble wall of the main entrance had been broken up. The bill for the damage may run as high...
During the summer and much of the fall, Kennedy was in a kind of hibernation as a public man. The murder had shattered him. He wept in the company of others and alone. Even Ethel seemed to bear up better than he. He spent much time sailing alone, or with a few intimates, or with some of the Kennedy children, often lying on his sloop and staring at the sky. One of the first times that he attempted to return to his suite in the Senate Office Building, he found himself unable to enter, unable to face his staff...