Word: wept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their return to Plains. Even at dawn, some 400 townspeople awaited him. "I told you I didn't intend to lose," Carter said. Then, for the first time during the up-and-down campaign, his composure broke. He bit his lip, fought back tears, while most of his family wept. As the crowd cheered, then grew quiet, Carter conceded: "The only reason it was close was that I as a candidate was not good enough as a campaigner. But I'll make up for that as President...
...play--and for exactly that reason, architecture is fully appreciated neither as author nor as experience. The buildings we know well, we take for granted; they seem so functional that we forget their role as artificers and artifacts, and neglect the built environment until too late. Thus New Yorkers wept more for the loss of the Brooklyn Dodgers than for Penn Station; Harvard recovered its Greek coins, but threw away Hunt Hall...
...reveals precisely what he was thinking-and what he assumed Nixon and others meant-as they plotted to contain the scandal. The book also probes the often heartless world of high-powered lawyers and prosecutors bargaining over the fates of clients and defendants. (When Prosecution Witness Herbert Kalmbach wept on the stand in the cover-up trial, Special Prosecutor James Neal was sympathetic but also ecstatic: "He's had it tough. But by God, he's a hell of a witness...
Norton appeared to win narrowly, but a law of boxing holds that no heavyweight champion can lose by a narrow decision. Dutifully, the referee and two judges gave the fight to Ali. Dutifully, Norton's manager protested. Norton wept in frustration. Ali stole off into the night, frightened by hoodlums clawing at the windows...
...ashes was displayed, the Chairman's body has been brought before the Chinese people for a final heroic display. Many believed that, like Lenin, Mao would be embalmed and enshrined in a special mausoleum. As they would before an emperor of old -or a father-the Chinese wept and bowed before Chairman Mao in reverence, showing a shattering sense of loss...