Word: wept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painted!" Hall cried. His coworkers, members of a U.S.-Guatemalan team that was hoping to unearth an undisturbed Mayan crypt, crowded to the rim of the pit. "We all wept and embraced," recalls Archaeologist George Stuart. "There was such a sense of incredible relief. It had been a gamble, and we'd been building up to that moment...
...impact of Edwin Thomas' $15,000 loan to Ursula Meese began to sink in. "I blew it," Ed Meese kept repeating in a low tone. "I completely forgot about it." At one point, when her husband left the room to make a phone call, Ursula broke down and wept. Never before had the friends seen Ursula Meese cry. "I've done this to him," she sobbed, "and he doesn't deserve...
...returns came in Tuesday night, the Hart crowd laughed and wept while a rockabilly band played in a Manchester restaurant. Months earlier, when victory seemed unlikely, the campaign had rented a banquet room that could be partitioned in case the crowd was small. But 500 people, a fifth of them journalists, jammed it beyond capacity. Hart staffers chatted over the din on newly acquired walkie-talkies, the first sign that the campaign had moved upscale. "I guess we're for real now, huh?" said a staffer, clutching his walkie-talkie...
Vaughn's father, William, also attended the trial every day, always sitting with his wife on the opposite side of the courtroom from the Johnses. Yesterday, he stared blankly at the bench and wept quietly after the sentence was read and his son was led from the courtroom...
When the 25-year-old woman saw her healthy newborn son, she wept tears of joy and relief. A typical reaction, one might say. But the circumstances were extraordinary. Five years ago the mother had been diagnosed as prematurely menopausal: her ovaries had ceased to release eggs or to produce the hormones needed to sustain a pregnancy. The child she had carried for nine months was the genetic offspring of another woman, who had donated an unfertilized egg. The birth of the world's first "donor-egg baby" in November, which was announced last week by scientists in Australia...