Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand behind his back and one on a rifle topped by a flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier between Russia and the rest of the world (save for a small, frozen strip of Norway) that the U.S. is committed to defend...
After the first operation, daughter Anna broke hospital rules and spent the night at her father's bedside, thus beginning a 16-year vigil during which, often for months at a time, she was always within call. Freud himself was not told that examination of the removed tissues revealed cancer, although more surgery was soon necessary for "an unmistakably malignant ulcer in the hard palate which invaded ... the upper part of the lower jaw and even the cheek." First, a carotid artery was tied off, and glands beneath the upper jawbone (some of them already suspiciously enlarged) were removed...
...Cape Canaveral, in U.S. missileland. On the hot, palmetto-studded beach, Photographer Stan Wayman, on assignment for TIME, set up his camera, trained its long telescopic lens in the direction of four gantry towers two miles away, and waited. The wait turned into a monotonous, week-long vigil. The monotony was relieved by the arrival of his wife with an ice chest and a bottle of champagne. It was the Waymans' seventh anniversary; they celebrated it on the beach...
Continuing Vigil. To some economists last week it seemed that inflation in the U.S. was just about licked. Noting declines in industrial expansion rates and stock-market prices in the U.S., Sweden's Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told the World Bank-IMF conference that the U.S. "has arrested its inflation" (see BUSINESS). And Harvard Economics Professor Sumner H. Slichter, a "limited inflationist," noted critically that in putting "stability ahead of growth," the Eisenhower Administration had made "the most important economic decision since the Roosevelt Administration decided to aid workers in bargaining with employers...
...officials concerned with managing the U.S. economy both spoke up for the tight-money policy. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson in a speech to the World Bank-IMF meeting noted that the U.S. is "gaining in the battle of inflation," but stressed "the continuing vigil we must keep to attain economic growth along with, and based on, sound money." Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin warned that nations yielding to inflation "will not have a higher standard of living but a lower...