Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide enough in diameter for a human body, no matter how emaciated, to pass through it. In trying to drill a shaft wide enough, the rescuers ran into endless, maddening failures. While families and friends of the trapped miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts would cave in what remained of the roof of that underground, pick-hewn grotto in which Fellin, Throne and, surely not too many feet away...
...press, then retreated behind the massive doors of his official residence to receive the parliamentary possibles one by one. And each time the Tokyo reporters have rushed over to cover the story, setting up a tento mura (tent village) outside his door for the day-and-night vigil that sometimes goes on and on for weeks...
...Vigil. In the third and most remarkable phase, Macmillan finally became aware that there was such a thing as a Profumo case. In January 1963, as Macmillan told Commons, police learned from Christine that Ward had asked her to find out from Profumo when the U.S. was to deliver certain nuclear information and warheads to West Germany (she said that she refused to do it). Macmillan was not told of this either. But while he was away in Italy, the general manager of the huge (circ. 6,500,000) News of the World reported the Profumo rumors to Macmillan...
...cool June night, 5,000 people stood watch in the moonlit piazza of St. Peter's. Some prayed; some chatted; some-Rome being what it is-eyed their neighbors for the bulge of a wallet, the unguarded clasp of a handbag. Most of those at the vigil looked often to the lighted windows on the top floor of the Vatican Palace. There the life of Pope John XXIII was slowly, inevitably, ebbing away...
VATICAN CITY May 30--Doctors relaxed their vigil over Pope John XXIII today and said his hemorrhages had halted. They warned him to stay in bed, but he didn...