Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give back to the earth what the earth gave, All to the furrow, nothing to the grave, The candle's out, the spirit's vigil spent; Sight may not follow where the vision went...
...Korea columns carried the authentic flavor of the combat infantryman's lonely world of fear and waiting: "Aside from the patrols and the small attacks, it's a constant vigil . . . Time drags when you sit and wait for something to happen." Reed's account of an Easter sermon, preached at a clearing leveled by a bulldozer the day before: "The chaplain . . . said that men, in these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time...
Taking note of the flourishing increase in such religious gadgets as electric vigil lights and mechanical rosary clickers, the Indiana Catholic and Record last week waxed satirical...
Just after midnight of the third day, the vigil on Astor Street ended. The convention had spoken, and the nominee strode before the microphones on grandmother Bowen's veranda. His first words were for the reporters and photographers: "First let me say how much I regret the inconvenience that all of you newsmen have suffered." Then he turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline...
...night last week, tearful women keeping vigil outside the presidential residence in Buenos Aires saw what they were watching for: a dim light in a second-floor room snapped out. Inside the darkened chamber, President Juan Perón walked away from the bedside of his wife. To waiting cabinet ministers he said, heavily, "Evita is dead...