Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...birds. He ordered sail to be shortened lest they overrun in the night. . . . It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour; . . .the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil...
...women came in anyhow, went into the bedroom. They told Tony and Judy to put their coats on. Tony was told that he did not have to keep his vigil any longer, that his mother was dead. Crying, lonely, bewildered, Tony and Judy spent that night in a shelter of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. A wireless was sent to their father...