Word: wept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet and Playwright Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) wept. "There is a loss here that a lot of black people aren't aware of," Jones said. "Whitney Young had become a kind of bridge between that part of the community which is activist and that part which is mainstream. He unified all forces...
Fran Tarkenton was apoplectic. Sportswriter Dick Schaap had given the New York Giants' quarterback a slim volume to pass the time on the New York-Boston jet. Tarkenton flipped the first few pages and wept through the last three chapters. Now, the night before the big game, the whole damn team was reading the thing with identical results. "Listen!" he telephoned Schaap. "This book is destroying the Giants just when we're supposed to be psyched up for the Patriots...
While the Princeton defensive spotters wept in the press box and the Princeton alumni drained their flasks, Steve Harrison ripped off a 47 yard run and John Hagerty pulled in a seven yard Eric Crone pass for Harvard's second touchdown in two minutes. A 15-7 upset had become a startling 29-7 rout...
...Kleenex conveniently placed on a round table littered with coffee cups and cigarette butts. Nearly everyone was in tears at least once during the emotion-charged weekend encounter in the basement activities room of the Methodist Church of the Redeemer in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and two of the women wept almost continuously. Otherwise, we represented a diverse group: a married couple, an internal revenue employee, a few housewives, a physical-ed instructor, a secretary, a lawyer, a college student, and a commercial artist with a polío-crippled arm. Some of us had been attracted by the excellent reputation...
...invited to edit more books and write more articles than he has time for (he has already authored or co-authored more than a dozen and has helped produce ten films), and serves on four committees, plus countless informal groups at Harvard. Girls in his course two years ago wept when his teaching assistant announced that DeVore was in the hospital with hepatitis. "Basically," one student who has worked with him for a year says, "once people find out how easy he is to talk to, they won't leave him alone...