Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spider" and a "bunch-backed toad," he is nonetheless poisonously fascinating. Nowhere is this more apparent than when he woos and wins the Lady Anne over the coffin of her husband, whom he has murdered. A scene that seems logically inconceivable becomes psychologically astute as Richard, who has never wept, weeps; who has never knelt, kneels. With the reckless audacity of his passion, he converts Anne's grief and loathing into something like coquetry...
...nothing so elated the Israelis as the capture of the Biblical city of Jerusalem. Said the tough commando leader who took the Wall: "None of us alive has ever seen or done anything so great as he has done today." And there by the Wall, he broke down and wept...
...Arab world, an effort to turn ignominy into personal triumph -and it worked. Angry Algerian street mobs who had been shouting "Lynch Nasser!" suddenly changed their tune. Within 30 minutes Iraqi President Abdel Rahman Aref was on the phone to Cairo urging Nasser to reconsider. Lebanese President Charles Helou wept openly when he heard the news. From Baghdad to Beirut, Arab mobs swept into the streets to demonstrate for Nasser. Often the demonstrations took on an ugly anti-Americanism, as in Beirut, where rioters were so unimaginative as to set fire to a Coca-Cola bottling plant...
Manic Sentences. He eventually tired of his self-imposed isolation. Heming way the North American Newspaper Alliance correspondent went to Spain to cover the Civil War, and there he did his best reporting. His words wept at the barbarism of battle. "The com pany had gone on [toward Teruel] and this was the phase where the dead did not rate stretchers, so we lifted him, still limp and warm, to the side of the road and left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded...
Marilyn Pitzele, Harvard's Rosemary Harris, at first fascinated you with her acting tricks -- she walked in a funny bowlegged waddle, she talked in an impeccable lower class accent, and she wept like a little girl who wanted attention very badly. But her performance was so consistent and thoroughly thought out that she soon overcame any critical defenses and convinced you that she was a pathetic, rather stupid 41 year old woman...