Word: wept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hassles with the Pharisees and Pontius Pilate and Herod started in, there was a hush in the screening room like a temple. And personally, I want you to know that when things really started coming down on you, with the whipping and crucifixion and all that, my old lady wept -wept. She wanted me to be sure and tell...
Some of the guests wept when a P.O.W. chorus sang a hymn composed by one of the prisoners: "We pledge unswerving faith and loyalty/ To our cause-America and thee." All were moved when a tiny flag was carried into the tent and placed in a position of honor on the stage. Laboriously made from threads plucked from prisoners' uniforms, the flag had been flown at night by men confined in the prison called the Hanoi Hilton...
...with no visible effort. His chin thrust forward, flashing a small, almost contemptuous smile, he showed that he could stand without leaning on his hands by raising his arms-ostensibly to shoot his cuffs. The audience exploded in a shouting, whistling, foot-stomping salute. A few country politicians wept...
...never give up, no matter how badly they tortured him. It was here I learned the difference between in doctrination and commitment. He was committed." Russo told the jury: "It was very moving−I came to know the Viet namese people." The next moment, he slumped forward and wept...
...black market, and made AID-financed schools out of little more than sand and water. "If you took a coin, you could scrape away the wall," he said. Then, after 3½ hours on the stand, an exhausted Ellsberg walked to his defense table, plopped into a chair and wept...