Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet the bus again on the next night and the next and the next. Each night from then on, as 13 years passed, Fido met the bus from San Lorenzo and waited patiently under it for his master. The local butcher gave him meat and bones to support his vigil. Villagers greeted him with cheering words. Sometimes, on chilly nights, the bus company even permitted Fido to do his waiting inside, instead of under the bus. And each year, though hard pressed to support her own household, Carlo's widow raised the money for Fido's dog license...
Persuader. In Denver, Alfonso Vigil, 27, telephoned police to report that he had just broken into a grocery, explained that Store Owner Raquel Cordova, 62, had dropped in, happened to have a gun, suggested he make the call...
Sweet Smell of Success. In Olympia, Wash., wrung out after an all-night vigil at a maternity hospital, proud father John Arends bent to kiss his wife as she was wheeled from the delivery room, caught a lingering whiff of ether, passed out cold on the concrete floor, was rushed to emergency for eight stitches in his face, repairs to two broken teeth...
...puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS). After a futile 24-hour vigil near the telephone, Mike Kadar gave up and journeyed home to write a pleading letter to Janos. The harsh odds, however, were that Mike had already got his answer ten years ago. At that time Janos Kadar, then a rising star in Hungary's Little Bear constellation, had written...
Flee Now ... In Santa Fe. N.M., after two convicts kidnaped him, hijacked his auto, escaped from prison and put 450 miles on the car before getting caught, Penitentiary Guard Jose A. Vigil billed the state for their jaunt at 8? a mile, faced having to pay the tab himself after the attorney general's office stated that the car had been used "on an un authorized trip...