Word: wept
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...reeling off so many -(130, mainly sportswear) that she had her mannequins parade four and five at once to save time. When she was done, even her rivals cast aside professional jealousy to swarm around her, crying, "Bravissimo!n and bussing her plump cheek. Overcome, Veneziani broke down and wept. Said a California department-store buyer: "The entire American sports world should have been here...
...third time, her feet leaving the ground as she sank the espada to the hilt. The fans poured into the ring to acclaim her triumph; the judges awarded her both the bull's ears. One judge babbled "Muchas gracias" over & over into a microphone. Pat's mother wept. Her father, a Texas oil engineer who had nerved himself to attend only at the last minute, cheered wildly. Cigarette in trembling hand, Pat accepted congratulations from ex-Bullfighter Alejandro del Hierro, her coach and sponsor since she quit a fine-arts course at El Paso's Texas Western...
...American families, whose sons, brothers, husbands and fathers had been listed as missing in action, could only hope against fading hope, or pray that the names they could not find would yet turn up in the ranks of the living. The kinfolk of the 3,198 identified U.S. captives wept, laughed, gave fervent thanks-and all the U.S. shared their painful...
...came to the Common every Sunday afternoon to plead with their daughter to return. They stood in the middle of a large crowd, mostly hostile, while Father Feeney called them names, and their daughter publicly denounced them and called on the crowd to get rid of them. The mother wept and the father pleaded...
...graveside. When Roger himself learned that many of them had chipped in to buy him a handsome gravestone, he was deeply moved. "The thought of that tombstone," he said, "made it all become real. I thought of my poor children who had lost both father and mother. I wept. It moved me even more than the death of my own wife...