Word: wept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Polish Catholics also wept at the sound of the pope's voice yesterday, and in Krakow, where he was once archbishop 300,000 faithful prayed for his recovery from gunshot wounds...
...early as six in the morning, badgering Diana for details of the romance. All this moved Mrs. Shand Kydd to write a letter of protest to the Times, and moved her daughter, finally, to tears. After a hectic pursuit from South Kensington to Mayfair, Diana sat and wept on a bench in Berkeley Square, comforted by a friend, while the repentant press slipped a note onto the seat of her red mini Metro: "We didn't mean this to happen. Our full apologies." "The press made Diana's life difficult," said her father, the eighth Earl Spencer...
When Metrinko got home last week, he went immediately to Saints Cyril and Methodius Church, where he had been baptized as a child into the Ukrainian Catholic faith. He blew out the votive flame that had been lit on the 100th day of his captivity, and wept when the priest read the Sermon on the Mount. Metrinko now plans to retreat to a cabin deep in the woods for a few weeks. The hideaway has no phone or TV, but, he says "there's a wonderful fireplace, and I'm going to spend my time chopping...
...first phone call from Gary Earl Lee came at 2 a.m. Wednesday, and his wife Pat wept uncontrollably when she first heard his voice, clear and firm, from Wiesbaden. Lee, 37, the son of a missionary in India, had been in Tehran since May 1979, serving as an administrative officer. His posting to Tehran was his sixth overseas assignment, including duty as coordinator of logistics for Henry Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy." Now, some 24 hours after Lee's plane had lifted off from Tehran Mehrabad Airport, Pat Lee, 37, waited for the phone to ring again. With...
Announcing the catastrophe to the nation on state-owned Algerian Television, a newscaster wept openly as he read the government's order mobilizing rescue squads and appealing to the public for donations of blood. Shortly afterward, French and Tunisian medical teams were dispatched to Algeria. Britain and West Germany provided emergency supplies, and Switzerland sent its famed air-rescue detachment. Because of heavy damage to railroads, highways and bridges, however, help was slow to arrive in El Asnam, except for a fleet of Algerian military helicopters, which began ferrying seriously injured victims to hospitals in other cities. Finally...