Word: wept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bullets fell on the innocent. A parish priest was killed in a crossfire just after he administered the last rites to a man he thought was dying; the man survived to tell the story. On a Belfast street a young man, one of 13 children of an unemployed laborer, wept uncontrollably as he told his sister: "They say Dad's dead; they say he's in the morgue...
Kiss for Hoover. Three other White House brides attended. Luci Johnson Nugent came with her husband Pat, who confessed that he wept when Eddie and Tricia walked down the aisle (he wept at his own wedding too). Luci at one point startled FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by planting a resounding kiss on his cheek. Lynda Johnson Robb and her husband Chuck were in deep conversation with Ralph Nader. The sentimentality of the day was relieved by gleefully acerbic Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 87, a White House bride in 1906. Asked by TIME'S Bonnie Angelo if the wedding brought...
Glazed Eyes. Yet, when the trial came to an end last week, only a few hundred spectators were on hand. Mrs. Huggins alternately smiled, wept and shook her head; Scale sagged low in his seat, eyes glazed. Then, in what seemed more a marriage ceremony than a murder trial, the two rose and embraced after the judge declared: "The motion to dismiss is granted in each case and the prisoners are discharged forthwith...
After hearing the tapes, Sadat called up Sharaf and told him to inform Gomaa "that I have accepted his resignation"-despite the fact that the Interior Minister had not submitted a resignation. Sharaf "wept on the telephone," Sadat recalled during his broadcast last week. "I said, 'When I lose confidence in someone, I cannot maneuver or lay an ambush. I am straightforward and always in the open...
...eyes, mouth, neck, chest, diaphragm, abdomen, pelvis. De-armoring begins with strenuous eye exercises accompanied by deep, regular breathing. After several hours of ocular acrobatics, Bean says, he suddenly recalled a dog he had loved and lost as a boy. For the first time since losing the dog, he wept. The exercises, he suggests, cracked the mental armor he had clamped on his eyes and taught him to cry again...