Word: wept
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McClory, an anguished former Nixon supporter who had wept when he learned about the Watergate-related criminal conviction of John Ehrlichman, then successfully sponsored a third article of impeachment of his own. It charged Nixon with deliberately disobeying lawful subpoenas from the Judiciary Committee for White House tape recordings and documents. Only two Republicans (McClory and Hogan) supported this article and only two Democrats (Mann and Alabama's Walter Flowers) opposed it. Defeated by identical margins of 26 to 12 were proposed articles based on Nixon's secret orders to bomb Cambodia, and his "attempt to willfully evade...
...mention the Amerasia case not only because it is another McCarthy-era mystery that time has not solved, but also because Kubek's contribution, along with Cedric Belfrage's The American Inquisition and Lately Thomas's When Even Angels Wept, forms a perfect Trinity of Ignorance: See No Evil, See No Good, See Nothing. By once again posing that time-eroded question--who lost China?--Kubek has oversimplified the true picture and, in the McCarthyite manner, painted portraits, portraits of heroes and villains, portraits in which all (and this, of course, is the tip-off) the subjects are Americans. Somehow...
...wept copiously...
...grotesquely fused or mutilated. Limbs lay scattered about. One dead woman was found with parts of a car engine embedded in her back. Another victim, his leg twisted and bleeding, lay pleading, "I'm Tom O'Reilly. Help me. I'm not ready to die." Police wept as they helped the injured to ambulances. As of Saturday morning, ten of the dead -including two baby girls-were still unidentified...
...mission. They wandered among Third Army soldiers at random, embracing and kissing them and introducing themselves ("I am Ahmed Hilal, Minister of Petroleum Affairs"). The troops swarmed around them, eager to tell stories. One soldier with an RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) antitank missile launcher slung over his shoulder almost wept when he met Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority...