Word: wept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city. But they still gather to remember. Some 40,000 assembled last week in the peace park, and at 8:15 a.m.-the hour at which the whale-shaped bomb dropped from the Enola Gay-a bell tolled to signal a moment of silent prayer. Men and women wept...
...were issued mattresses, bedclothes and kits containing toilet articles, sandals and one candy bar each. Inside the tents and Quonset huts hastily erected for the emergency, the refugees finally gave way to emotions stored up over weeks of anxiety. In their first communal act in America, they embraced and wept...
They buried Agnes McAnoy, 62, widow and mother of three, in Belfast last week. And Molly McAleavy, 57, mother of eleven. And Marie Bennett, 42, mother of seven. And Arthur Penn, 33, father of three. And Elizabeth Carson, 64, whose husband Willy lost an arm. Pathetic lines of mourners wept after the requiem at the Catholic Church of St. Matthew, half a mile from where the attackers had tossed a bomb into the crowded Strand bar in East Belfast...
...Sunday, only a few people attended services at St. Christopher's, the little Protestant church next to the U.S. embassy, and those who did were tense and anxious. In one pew, a young Vietnamese girl and her brother, both refugees and no older than 14, sat alone. She wept openly, and the boy held her hand throughout the service. "Amid great stress and suffering," intoned the Anglican priest, "we come to a celebration of life-baptism." Then he sprinkled holy water on an adult Vietnamese convert and christened him Michael...
...deeply shaken by the loss of a political leader. Across the Middle East, radio stations broke into their regular programs to replay the emotion-choked voice of the Riyadh announcer. Panic and hysteria swept through the dusty streets of the capital as the news spread. Fierce Bedouin tribesmen wept openly; army and police units moved into strategic positions throughout the city. Within hours, every Arab government had proclaimed extended periods of mourning. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who had received extensive aid and political support from the Saudi King, called Faisal "a tireless fighter for the Arab cause." Tunisia...