Word: wept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head... so limited in its finitude; [not to] my heart, which is boundless in its love for the entire human family. I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant... Be patient. God is not finished with me yet." Some delegates shouted, "Jesse! Jesse!" Others wept. Many did both...
...veiled echoes of his earlier complaints about Mondale. "We have failed when we became cautious and complacent," he said of his party. He criticized "the policies of the comfortable past that do not answer the challenges of tomorrow." His followers gave Hart a warm ovation, and some wept in the realization that his candidacy was over. Others in the hall felt he had been less than gracious in defeat...
...years for Helen Williams, a founder of 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women. It was 13 years for Jane Campbell, candidate for the Ohio legislature and former ERAmerica. She passed around champagne as the Ferraro nominating speeches ended, while across the aisle Texas women hugged and wept. It was O.K. to cry. "Did you ever think you would see the day?" Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards kept repeating. "I've worked 32 years in politics, and nothing has made me so happy," sobbed Billie Carr, Democratic National Committeewoman. Carr was 27 days old when...
...offenders to jail, sat straight and proud. Rabbi Joseph Glaser caught every word. The Ambassador from China watched in fascination. Max Kampelman, who was one of Hubert Humphrey's whiz kids from Minnesota, cocked his ear for each nuance. The Senator's daughter, Anna Marie Jackson, 21, wept...
...then, the President's eyes were red, and he could barely continue reading. Near him was Lisa, who wept openly. Afterward, the First Couple, still shaken, boarded their helicopter and flew to Utah Beach. In the end, pride and tears seemed the sweetest memorial to the fallen, and the most eloquent way of saying goodbye...