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...should not like to see any more of his subjects killed and the country reduced to scorched earth. . . ." Thereupon Hirohito broke down, sobbed, wiped his tears away with his white-gloved hand. His ministers and aides, "profoundly impressed by the gracious concern of His Majesty . . . silently bowed down and wept. Thus the final decision to accept the terms of the Potsdam declaration was taken...
There Laval was assigned to a 7 ft.-by-12 ft. cell, with an iron bed he would have to make himself. When officials sealed his luggage, the prisoner lost his taut composure, wept...
Stocky Pietro Mascagni tried 14 times to repeat his success. (Shrewish Signora Mascagni, a peasant girl wrapped in furs on the profits of Cavalleria, jealously selected the casts of all 15). But the audiences that cheered and wept over Cavalleria booed and hissed its pedantic successors...
...ring was a mountainous wreck. His drug dosage had been cut from 40 tablets of paracodeine to 26 tablets daily. Mostly he kept to his cot or his chair (he had to have an outsize one; a small one had crumpled under his 270 Ibs.). He alternately bragged and wept. Last week he went completely to pieces during a thunderstorm-which scared the daylights out of him-and suffered, a heart attack...
...Betrayed France." Later the parade of prosecution witnesses began. Day after day, past the prisoner's dock marched men who had led France in the prewar years of disunion and gathering defeat. They talked torrentially, plaintively, querulously. They pleaded, argued, wept, declaimed. They defended themselves, often by accusing each other. They were France, baring her shame...