Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their long vigil climaxed an even longer uphill struggle in which Drinan barely managed to wrest the Democratic nomination from 72-year-old incumbent Philbin by winning the September 15 primary, only to face a Philbin write-in campaign as well as moderate Republican opponent McGlennon...
Vonnegut's succinct 45-second address climaxed an emotional hour-long vigil in the upper Seminar Room at Warren House, English Department headquarters, where a couple hundred aspiring novelists turned up to apply for the 15 places in author Vonnegut's English V writing course. After a 20-second pause, during which the assembled absorbed the preceding sentence, Vonnegut added. "If your love life is in a shambles and everything else is going wrong, this will be just one more thing...
...Office Building later in the day, and opened lobbying efforts for the equal rights for women amendment, which is to be considered by the Senate. Los Angeles liberationists were confined to the sidewalk during their march, which drew only 500. Seven women dressed in suffragette costumes stood a "silent vigil" for women's rights during the day at the Federal Building...
...Senior Class Committee has urged attendance at the candlelight peace vigil Wednesday night near the statue of John Harvard. It asked that the community regard Commencement as a ceremony "acted out under the ominous shadow of national and international conflict, suffering, and injustice...
Members of a "non-violent vigil"- strikers who opposed this tactic and students who oppose the strike-were at University Hall well before the picket line...