Word: wept
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...popularity of their sports. "I'm not some staunch feminist who wants to tell girls that they have to wrestle," says Miranda. "I just want them to know that they can." At a high school tournament her junior year, someone in the crowd yelled, "You're a joke!" She wept in the bathroom after the match. "It was the best thing that ever happened to me," she says. "I was able to know that I could take my worst...
...travelers came back to the casket alone or in clusters to stand for a moment beside the man they had followed and worshipped. They reached out to touch the flag, and they wept, but they were not broken people. More often than not they whispered their undimmed gratitude. "Thank God I knew him. He changed my life...
...helping manage a crisis with China while preparing for negotiations with Russia on the ABM treaty. In June she accompanied Bush on a trip to Eastern and Central Europe, the very territory that had been the focus of her time in government 10 years before. She wept as the President, in Warsaw, made a commitment to a "great alliance of liberty" with Europe; in Slovenia she watched Bush look into the soul of Russian President Vladimir Putin and find it good. A month later she was in Moscow, negotiating with Putin as if it were 1991 all over again...
...lost for the embrace of this blasé worship of capitalism—red in tooth and claw—to be permissible. In 2000, the historic Bow & Arrow Pub served its last pint, culminating a decade of the Square’s cultural decline. In 1992 customers literally wept at the closing of J.F. Olsson’s—a fixture on Brattle Street for 107 years. Financial troubles led the once popular Wursthaus restaurant to disappear after 79 years. And just a few years ago, Harvard Square’s Tasty restaurant, still a legend in Harvard...
Dartboard wept. Then Dartboard got mad. Now, Dartboard just feels empty...