Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community leader can match the Boston School Committee's influence in rousing Roxbury to anger. By most accounts, the community first came alive in the spring and summer of 1965. That spring, Roxbury's Reverend Vernon Carter kept a month-long vigil at the entrance of the School Department at 15 Beacon St., dramatizing the issues of de facto segregation and poor ghetto schooling...
...Japan as a counterforce to the strong U.S. task force there. While the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise moved from a point 45 miles off the North Korean coast to about 100 miles in a tension-easing gesture, two smaller U.S. flattops and supporting ships maintained their close-in vigil...
...nearby army barracks, where he telephoned for help. Helicopters, light planes, boats and launches soon spiderwebbed the area in the greatest search in Australia's history. Skindivers plunged deep below the surface. Flying in from Canberra, Zara Holt walked for hours along the beach, keeping her own lonely vigil and suggesting a few places where searchers might look for the body. "Try the Pope's Eye and the Chinaman's Hat," she suggested. "They are two bad pockets of rocks right in the middle of the current." But there was nothing. Though the police vowed to search...
...devaluation of the pound was followed by the equally traumatic devaluation of Harold Wilson and his government. Crowds mounted a week-long vigil on the sidewalk opposite No. 10 Downing Street, some of them crying: "Get out, you silly nits." In most un-British fashion, eggs were hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan. A poll published by the Daily Mail reported that 54% of British voters thought that Wilson should resign, and that 56% believed that devaluation was the result of Labor's mismanagement. In the only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots...
...clubs and squirt guns loaded with Mace-a chemical crowd-dispersal spray that stings, sickens and temporarily blinds anyone it hits in the face. Shattered and shaken, the dissenters broke and ran, leaving bloody-headed buddies-and a dozen hapless newsmen-crumpled in the streets. The picketers resumed their vigil, forcing the draft center to bus its inductees right to the door, then double-time the soldiers-to-be through the crowd under escort of bayonet-swinging troops. It was an ugly image, and one that could cozily be interpreted outside the U.S. to imply that American draftees must...