Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carefree clutter of books and clothes, the cherished mementos of lost childhood, beginning career and burgeoning romance marked it inimitably as a young women's dormitory. Around the two-story apartment on Chicago's far South Side, Teddy bears stood button-eyed vigil over dressers festooned with framed pictures of parents and boy friends. Among the souvenirs of tender evenings past was a long-empty champagne bottle. In the three upstairs bedrooms lined with bunks, the closets were crammed with party dresses. In one bedroom, a postcard was fondly pinned to a notice board: "Some day before...
...Santa Monica is real showfolks. At 4:30 in the morning on the day of the Academy Awards, Mrs. Washington arrived at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium with her two babies-21 months and 9 months-and grabbed a front-row seat in the grandstands outside the door. Her vigil was relieved by her mother, who turned up periodically with nourishment and fresh diapers...
Outside Carnegie Hall, the long vigil for tickets begins. Some wait in line for 48 hours in the rain for the privilege of buying standing room. Moments before the concert begins, Horowitz, tight as a high wire, reaches out to an usher. "Listen," he says, "you're young and healthy. Give me your hands to warm my fingers." "When I felt his hands," Horowitz recalls later, "I drew mine back quickly. Mine were cold, but his were really icy. He was more nervous than I. Everybody was nervous...
...Catholics last week twice picketed the cardinal's residence and the near by seminary, and organized a four-day Easter prayer vigil on behalf of the seminarians' demands. "The cardinal has a bull by the tail now," said the mother of one seminarian, "and he doesn't know what...
CNVA holds an hour vigil every morning outside the Charles Street jail, where the seven are held