Word: wept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with such violence that the head was nearly severed. She then stuffed the body into the family privy. When the judge passed the death sentence (later commuted to life), his voice choked with sobs, and a local paper reported that the jury and "the greater part of the assembly" wept over the severity of the verdict...
...press conference last fall announcing his appointment as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jerry West wept tears of joy over returning to basketball. "Wait until he sees the Lakers," somebody snickered. Others suggested that West could best help his old team by finding the fountain of youth and coming back as himself, the matchless Mr. Clutch who as a high-scoring guard led the Lakers into the N.B.A. playoffs 14 times in 14 years. The post-West Lakers had been a crying shame, winding up the 1976 season next to last in the Pacific Division with a dismal...
...mayor. Chicagoans worshipped the man. He received over 70 per cent of the vote in four of his six elections; he carried every one of the city's 50 wards in the '75 primary, except the liberal-chic University of Chicago neighborhood and the professionally liberal 43rd ward. Many wept in the streets when the end came, and all citizens, whatever their views, felt a sense of loss. The mayor touched the lives of every single person in Chicago and that meant a lot. To those who went along--a large number--it meant they had a stake, however small...
...hockey, the Forum, 16,000 fans had louder cheers for news of the election results than for goals scored by their beloved Canadiens. At Paul Sauvé Arena in the city's Francophone North End, 6,000 supporters of the Parti Québécois wept, cheered and sang "Tomorrow belongs to us ..." as Péquiste Party Leader René Lévesque, 54, appeared to claim victory. In an extraordinary election that could affect Canada's future as a nation, Quebec voters had chosen as Premier a man whose party is committed to leading...
...Viet Nam. People gathered at the White House gates then to wonder about the future. Again they came by the thousands on the night of Aug. 8, 1974, when Richard Nixon told the nation he would leave office, a final great convulsion in that dark era. People cheered and wept and peered through the iron bars at the graceful facade that means so much to this nation...