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...wept copiously...
...grotesquely fused or mutilated. Limbs lay scattered about. One dead woman was found with parts of a car engine embedded in her back. Another victim, his leg twisted and bleeding, lay pleading, "I'm Tom O'Reilly. Help me. I'm not ready to die." Police wept as they helped the injured to ambulances. As of Saturday morning, ten of the dead -including two baby girls-were still unidentified...
...mission. They wandered among Third Army soldiers at random, embracing and kissing them and introducing themselves ("I am Ahmed Hilal, Minister of Petroleum Affairs"). The troops swarmed around them, eager to tell stories. One soldier with an RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) antitank missile launcher slung over his shoulder almost wept when he met Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority...
...once, it was apparent that Sunderland had a bit of the psychotic in his blood as he amazingly performed the Dr. Jekyll routine. I swear he foamed as he darted to the glass, mounted it and began raking the environs with his stick. The fans ducked, screamed, wept and fell, not necessarily in that order. After finishing this massacre, he skated to the dressing room as fast as he had struck...
...When Gay and I first met we talked a lot about death, as the young will, and were much moved by lines about sorrow and early loss-ah, many a time we wept for Adonais. But we don't talk about it much any more-I mean, what's to say?" The voice belongs to a New England woman, variously marked by love, marriage, friendship, drink and (of course) intimations of mortality that come, as Auden put it, like sounds of thunder at a picnic...