Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DeGiorgio said that a "possible candlelight vigil" on the steps of Memorial Church may be in the works...
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. And I'm not quite sure what to give him. I could cook him a gourmet dinner and read him John Donne by candlelight...
...cold day in hell when Terry Anderson won his freedom at last. The snow fell hard in Mount Lebanon as he spent the last 24 hours pacing in his cell, playing solitaire by candlelight and listening to the BBC broadcast stories of his progress on the road to Damascus. Those last hours passed with infernal slowness; his captors continued to argue over whether to let him go at all. But when at last the path to freedom cleared, he appeared to a world captured in a camera lens, and all was finally well...
...returned. Those who stayed are overworked and still shell-shocked from their wartime experiences. At Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital, chief surgeon Boghos Boghossian remembers when more than 300 bodies were delivered from the Amiriyah bomb shelter, many charred beyond recognition. There were only 20 burn beds to receive them. Candlelight replaced electricity throughout the hospital, except in the operating theaters, to which all electricity from the generator was diverted. "It was like being thrown back into the Middle Ages," says Boghossian...
Within days of the article's publication, students began postering, holding candlelight vigils, and crowding into University Hall to protest the deans' statements...