Word: wept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liddy wept when World War II ended, for he had missed...
...ignored it through the past 35 years. But the idea of a big war has receded in the past decade. Few seem to recall that during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, many Americans stocked food in their basements and believed a nuclear exchange possible. John Kennedy in 1961 wept at the prospect of a nuclear confrontation, which he considered likely if the Soviets pressed their plan to consume West Berlin...
...already been selected out of 2,500 applicants and begun preliminary tests; 30 more are in the next group waiting for treatment (estimated cost: $3,000 to $4,000). Exulted Jill Schroeder, 31, a Norfolk bookkeeper: "This is an answer to our prayers." Sarah Smith, 33, of Virginia Beach, wept with joy. Said her husband: "It sent chills up and down my spine...
Waldheim, his legendary diplomatic poise badly shaken, hugged the child for a few moments while the crippled demonstrators and Waldheim's armed Iranian bodyguards wept. Then he promised emotionally that he would press for a U.N. investigation of atrocities committed under the Shah. Vowed Waldheim: "I shall bring this message of suffering before the United Nations, before the world community. We will inquire into the violation of human rights by the previous regime. We shall certainly do whatever we can to ensure that this mutilation of human beings will never take place again...
...that for security reasons, no more than five hostages could meet with a clergyman at one time. After considerable argument, the clerics split up and conducted eleven separate services. Said Gumbleton: "We sang together, we prayed together and we shared the Eucharist together. I should also say that we wept together." Afterward, the churchmen tallied the number of hostages that each had seen and arrived at a total of 41 men and two women-seven short of the 50 hostages who the State Department insists were seized by the students...