Word: wept
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...breakfast when the broadcast told them. By noon the news was known to the men at the front, at the far sharp edge of the world's struggle. With no time for grief, they went on with their work; but there, while they worked, many a soldier wept...
...stood bareheaded. Few people wept, so that the occasional sounds of sobbing seemed shockingly loud. As the coffin went past, part of the crowd began jostling quietly to move along, to keep it in sight. On Pennsylvania Avenue an elderly weeping Negro woman sat on the curb, rocking and crying...
Bess Truman, whom Harry had met in Sunday School at Independence, Mo. when he was seven and she six, and had married 28 years later, was at the Trumans' modest five-room apartment at 4701 Connecticut Avenue. When she heard what her husband had to tell her, she wept. A few minutes later, with the Trumans' daughter (and only child), 21-year-old Mary Margaret, she left by a rear door. A White House car was waiting...
...American medical men labored to save the injured, the mood among the survivors changed. Fear diminished. An old man who had killed his daughter wept with bitter remorse...
...Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring had wept bitterly over his jewels and looted paintings, then shot himself...