Word: wept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tears failed to save hotelier Leona Helmsley, 69, the "Queen of Mean," who once sneered that only "little people pay taxes." Imploring Federal Judge John M. Walker Jr. not to imprison her for tax evasion, Helmsley wept, "I am more humiliated and ashamed than anybody could ever imagine." The judge was unmoved. Her attempt to charge off as business expenses items ranging from a $12.99 girdle to a $1.2 million pool enclosure for her mansion was the "product of naked greed," he declared. Helmsley is appealing the verdict, but as she left the courtroom, one of the little people...
...right, and they are both wrong. No one could possibly fault Wuer Kaixi for waiting never to forget those who died, but he was wrong in thinking that the gathering Sunday was "lighthearted." It was forward-looking as well as backward-looking; imaginative as well as reminiscent. I have wept in memorial of Wuer Kaixi's friends, but for the remembrance to have meaning, I and others must...
...House of Representatives last Wednesday was part theater, part courtroom and part confessional. As his wife Betty wept in the visitors' gallery, Speaker Jim Wright played defense attorney, arguing away each charge against him; thespian, wiping his brow and lowering his voice to a whisper; and penitent: "Are there things I would do differently? Oh, boy." As the minutes ticked away -- Wright took more than an hour -- some began to wonder whether he was giving a resignation speech or making another plea for forgiveness. Finally the words that had caught in his throat for so long passed his lips...
...radio sets, the Deputies who filled the vast hall continued to unleash frustration, criticism and not a little invective at their rulers -- even at Gorbachev himself. Some Muscovites said they found the show so riveting they had to keep their heart pills handy. Others admitted they watched and wept. One Transcaucasian Deputy aptly called the assembly a "volcano of words and wishes...
...book's most moving scenes, Ackermann enters the Towers and confronts Largey's 16-year old peers, sharing their anger and desperation. "Other children were weeping," she says of the moment. "This was Larry's wake we were at. I wept...