Word: wept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to know exactly how many died, how many were hospitalized; reports supersede reports. When the count is finally declared accurate, it is as if one were mourning a quantity rather than people, since the counting exercise is a way of establishing objective significance in the world. Still, we wept at the pictures...
Penn fans tore down the goal posts, and Quaker players wept and hugged each other...
...freedom, and they can't take that away"), recalled the Grenada invasion, the Olympics and his D-day anniversary visit to Normandy and told an anecdote about how the dying Ulysses S. Grant saluted a battle-scarred Union veteran ("as Grant's wife and the doctor wept...
...packed congregation last week as he welcomed the evening's special preacher. "We know what difficulties you faced in coming here, Billy Graham," said Piotr Konovalchik. "We rejoice that you are with us tonight." Many young women in the choir, clad in orange dresses and white headbands, wept along with him. As Graham quietly thanked Konovalchik, a clergyman who had come from Moscow strode to the pulpit to offer a prayer: "You shed your blood for Russia too, O Lord. We pray that a surge of revival may start in this house of ours...
Last week in Atlanta, several veterans wept as they testified about their suffering. Adding tension to the proceedings was a study released by Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, which concluded that soldiers exposed to Agent Orange had no greater risk of having babies with birth defects than did the general population. Said Woody Willis, head of the Nam Vets of Georgia organization: "My gut reaction is that they're trying to sell us down the river like they have in the past...