Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children, three girls and a younger boy. shared the agonizing 54-day vigil with their white-haired 62-year-old mother, the daughter of an M.D. Son Giovanni, 20. a law student at the University of Rome, and the youngest daughter. Agnese. 26. a university student, lived with their parents in a comfortable duplex on Rome's suburban Via del Forte Trionfale. The second daughter, Anna Giordano, 29. a pediatrician reputedly as meditative and complex as her father, came home again to await word. Anna, although seven months pregnant, at one point evaded reporters, walked a quarter...
...cruel seesaw of suspense, the vigil for Moro goes...
...microscopic handwriting on his personal notepaper, "not so much because of my humble and affectionate intercession, but because of his dignity as a common brother in humanity, and for the cause of real social progress." The deadline passed with no word on Moro's fate: the vigil went...
Monday night marked the end of the beginning, as a core of protesters set up camp outside University Hall, beginning their week-long vigil and awaiting the Corporation's decision...
...Muzdalifa, in the direction of Mecca. There they spend the night in the open, under the star-lit sky. The stillness of the night closes upon each, inducing a feeling of direct communion between the worshipper and the Creator. They offer prayers and recite supplications as they keep vigil during this blessed night. As the night expires, the pilgrims resume their journey back to Mecca...