Word: wept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer operators wept on each others' shoulders after parading single file out of the Marcos-appointed commission's counting center...
...rescue effort. Moreover, Mexican officials were allegedly more anxious to bulldoze ruined buildings than to proceed with the painstaking / rescue work, apparently out of the mistaken fear that decomposing corpses in the ruins would cause epidemics. Carl Heinz Wolbert, a West German police detective and volunteer rescue expert, wept in frustration at the resulting delays. Said he: "We can touch the people who are trapped. In Mexico it is impossible to get them out. In Germany it would be very possible." Admitted a senior Mexican official: "In situations like this, every minute counts, and we lost many, many minutes...
...administer kindnesses to passengers: fetching a blanket for a young girl with bronchitis, providing cough drops for a passenger with cold symptoms. One terrorist, it was recalled, proposed marriage to the flight's purser; at another point, a hijacker beat a passenger, threatened to shoot him, then apologized and wept with his victim. Passengers became targets in many games of Russian roulette. Here are the recollections of some of the hostages...
...found themselves refugees in the emergency shelter that the Red Cross had established in the parish hall of St. Carthage Roman Catholic Church, or staying in dormitory rooms at city universities. When they returned to look at their homes, or what was left of them, many wept...
...rare demonstration of unity took place the next day when the city's largely Sunni Muslim population greeted Lebanon's Maronite Christian President Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister Rashid Karami. The two leaders wept as thousands shouted, "Long live Lebanon, long live Gemayel, long live the resistance!" During the demonstration Gemayel declared his support of "the honorable national resistance movement," an indication of his growing ties with Syria, whose government is trying to increase its political influence in Lebanon. Gemayel's remarks were ironic because his family had welcomed the Israeli forces into Lebanon in 1982 as a means...