Word: wept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ancient trucks, clinging precariously to the roofs and sides of trains rolling into the city's Central Station. Like members of some giant caravan at rest, they camped all over Cairo. They watched the comings and goings at the Kubbeh Republican Palace, where dignitaries made solemn calls. They wept at the new Nasr Mosque in the suburb of Manshiet al Bakri, where laborers silently dug a five-foot crypt...
...tribute, but not before the coffin had been transferred to an armored car, which rammed through the crowd at 25 m.p.h. Nasser's widow Tahia fainted at one point. One Egyptian newscaster who was describing the proceedings passed out, and at least three others broke down and wept. Wrapped in a white sheet, Nasser's body was removed from the coffin and lowered into its crypt. The face was carefully turned toward Mecca, 800 miles away across the Red Sea. Nasser's soul, as far as devout Moslems were concerned, was already with God. He had succumbed on the anniversary...
...Tunku, who was so shaken that he broke down and wept during a political speech, blamed Chinese Maoists for the riots. While Chinese Communists did constitute a real problem until 1960, when they were finally rooted out after a twelve-year campaign, the racial disharmony was strictly homegrown. Until the riots started, Malaysia enjoyed a prosperous economy based on tin, rubber and palm oil. But the wealth was not spread equitably. Like the Tunku, many Malays have a leisurely lifestyle, a world apart from that of the bustling, aggressive Chinese. Consequently, the Chinese, and to a lesser extent Indians, outpaced...
...minute address, Kaunda elaborated on that old, old theme. He castigated "powerful nations" for forcing developing countries to tender "political and ideological support in return for economic assistance." He wept as he spoke of the disenfranchisement of black majorities in South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal's African colonies. It was symptomatic of the essential nonalignment of the nonaligned these days, however, that Kaunda's proposal of formal censure of white minority rule in those states was hotly opposed by Swaziland, Lesotho and other countries that depend heavily on trade with South Africa...
...wept...