Word: wept
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...blizzard of confetti, ticker tape and torn newspapers fell dizzily through the afternoon sun into Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza. The crowd wept happily...
...this morning. This is no day for restraint, and I could not write with restraint if I wanted to. Your correspondent and your photographer Bob Capa drove into Paris with eyes that would not stay dry, and we were no more ashamed of it than were the people who wept as they embraced...
...butler wept. Sebastian sighed: "Now I won't get my evening clothes." "Was it Marcus Aurelius or Julius Caesar . . . who passed on in the W.C.?" inquired Mrs. Gamble. She arranged a seance at once...
When "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell discovered how his orders had been misconstrued, he wept. But it was too late. The Marauders were through as a combat unit. Now that the story was out, Army men wondered what would be done. The answer was: very little. General Merrill, ill for months, had already been replaced by Brigadier General Theodore F. Wessels who (with a few original Marauders) was leading a Chinese outfit at Myitkyina. For most of the original Marauders there were only the Army's red bathrobes, gloomy hospital talk, rear-base doldrums. Only official action taken...
...troopers wanted to take Ziggy wherever they went, but finally the time came when they could no longer stay together. Ziggy wept when he heard that his days as a guest were over. Then he smiled, after a Polish-speaking soldier read a letter to him and gave it to him to carry...