Word: wept
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John Kennedy told France's Charles de Gaulle that the U.S. would nuke the Soviet Union if it ever attacked Europe. De Gaulle never believed him, and indeed Kennedy wept one day when contemplating a possible confrontation with the Soviets over Berlin. Jimmy Carter sat straight-backed in his chair in the Oval Office a couple of years ago and insisted that he could order a nuclear attack. None of his listeners thought he could...
...board a DC-10 bound for Miami from Manchester, England, were stunned to hear over a loudspeaker that their flight had been canceled. An Airbus A300, already airborne toward Tenerife, reversed course and flew back to Manchester. At London's Gatwick Airport, stewardesses and ticket agents openly wept. Sir Freddie Laker, the swashbuckling British entrepreneur who had revolutionized transatlantic travel by slashing air fares, had abruptly announced that he was liquidating his debt-laden airline. Said one Laker counter attendant: "It's hit everyone, mate-like a smack in the mouth...
...knew as well as anyone the furies he had stirred in the Arab world when he went to Jerusalem on his "sacred mission" in 1977, when he signed the Camp David agreements and embraced the Prime Minister of Israel. At the news of his death, while others recoiled and wept, great throngs in many Arab countries turned out rejoicing; they waved flags and fired rifles in the air. They hated Sadat. They wanted him dead; they had their reasons. But they were dancing upon the assassinated corpse of one of the world's last great...
...people, to put out a light that we've been tending for the past 6,000 years." More personally, the President said to a visibly moved Begin, "From your earliest days, you were acquainted with hunger and sorrow, but as you've written, you rarely wept. On one occasion, you did-the night when your beloved country, the state of Israel, was proclaimed. You cried that night, you said, because, 'truly there are tears of salvation as well as tears of grief.' " In response, Begin thanked Reagan for his "heartwarming remarks" and "the touching words...
...soft, slightly slurred but steady voice boomed over the square, a crowd of 15,000 broke into cheers. Some wept. Many knelt and prayed...