Word: wept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nameless dread dogged him so closely that he could not work. Finally, his anguish became so acute that he decided to kill himself. So relieved was he by suicide's promise of deliverance that he broke down and wept, waking his sleeping wife, who learned for the first time how close to the edge he had gone and who helped start him on the road to recovery...
...Lieut. General Sosthene Fernandez, who is hated both for his corruption (his army payroll is inflated with fake names) and for refusing to take orders from the National Assembly. At the presidential palace, Lon Nol threw a champagne party for Fernandez and his successor, Lieut. General Sak Sutsakhan. Fernandez wept and kissed the national flag as the green-and-red sash of the Grand Cross was placed over his shoulders...
...vocalist in the U.S. and composer of the rousing feminist anthem I Am Woman, Reddy last week joined ranks with her American fans by becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. With Bronx-born Husband-Manager Jeff Wald at her side, Reddy took the oath of allegiance in Los Angeles, then wept happily on the shoulder of Mayor Tom Bradley, who witnessed the ceremony. "This wonderful country is still the only place on earth where the boldest dreams can come true," exulted Reddy, who later celebrated by singing two concerts for women prisoners in a local jail...
...leadership of the Republican Party at large, the fall of Richard Nixon was a moment of genuine distress. Barry Goldwater called it "the saddest days of my life." Many, like Georgia Party Chairman Robert J. Shaw, wept. John J. McCloy, an elder among New York Republicans, called the Nixon speech "a dignified statement, a dignified exit," adding: "We shouldn't expect any more than what it contained; we shouldn't cavil at it now." After watching the Nixon speech in California, Governor Ronald Reagan, who had continued to support the President until only a day earlier, said that...
...betrayed by the Administration when Spiro Agnew fell in disgrace last October. But the President's farewell address shook her. "My heart went out to him," she said. "I really felt he was in the same room talking to me, apologizing to me." She was alone, and she wept before the TV set. Earlier, she had thought that Nixon should be subject to prosecution like any other citizen. After the speech she decided: "I think resigning is enough. I'm willing to forgive and forget...