Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 300 doctors, interns, and medical students held a one hour silent vigil yesterday protesting the diversion of funds from vital U.S. health programs for the Vietnam...
Some of them, members of the New England Committee for Non-Violent Action, then began what they said would be a week-long fast and vigil in Reed's honor outside the courthouse in Post Office Square...
...Downs estate, and there the two founded the Glyndebourne Festival, the home of some of the finest Mozart performances heard anywhere. When World War II interrupted that idyl, Bing took a job as a coupon clerk in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square), stood nightly rooftop vigil as a volunteer fire warden. Eventually, he worked himself up to division manager, "hating every minute of it" except for his rounds to the store's hairdressing salon, where, he recalls dryly, "the atmosphere of hysteria reminded me of opera...
...Illia moved into his brother's house in a Buenos Aires suburb and watched over his ailing wife, Sylvia, 46, who recently returned from the U.S., where she had been treated for cancer. Occasionally, he would break the bedside vigil to receive some of his old friends and former ministers, with whom he talked for hours about what might have been...
...greeted outside the church by anti-Viet Nam pickets. Inside though, there were no Republicans or Democrats, no hawks or doves, no Northerners or Southerners-only guests at a solemn ceremony. No TV or radio was allowed within, but millions of people throughout the U.S. kept a sort of vigil while the couple knelt inside the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, under the gaze of a huge mosaic of a stern Christ in red robes, and vowed to each other: With this ring I marry you and pledge to you my ever faithful love...