Word: wept
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Reeling from bad loans and famished for new capital, Unitedbank was a prime candidate for closure. Still, when an army of FDIC liquidators marched without warning into the bank's headquarters in a downtown skyscraper, the staff of 100 were traumatized. Secretaries wept as the intruders posted notices on the inlaid-glass walls, changed the door locks and dismantled automatic-teller machines. "We kept hearing the rumors, but nobody thought that this time it would be us," sighed Teller Erica Joiner, 30, who watched as armed guards took up positions in the lobby and federal officials affixed blue seals...
...Marion lived by the dry motto "We make our living out of other people's mistakes." In pure numbers of victories, the son has logged eight national training championships, including in 1986. But of late the cheaper achievements have meant less to him than the classic challenges. Van Berg wept last week for his special horse and for his late father. "There's no feeling in the world," he murmured, "like winning the Kentucky Derby...
...heart of the operation is the PTL cable network, which reaches 13.5 million households over 171 stations and until last month featured the chatty Jim and Tammy Show. On the hourlong daily program, Jim continually pleaded -- and sometimes Tammy wept through enormous fly-whisk eyelashes -- for funds to support such new projects as a home for unwed mothers and Heritage USA's $100 million re-creation of England's 1851 Crystal Palace...
...members of the Alsa Masa, one of more than a score of private paramilitary groups that are waging war against the N.P.A. Every so often, pallbearers opened a coffin and showed the remains to onlookers, who craned their necks for a glimpse and then quickly looked away. As relatives wept and church bells rang, a spectator hoisted a banner that read HOW MANY MORE...
MOST STIRRING The master Jack Nicklaus and the thoroughbred Bill Shoemaker triumphed at 46 at Augusta and at 54 at Churchill Downs. Both wept, neither alone...