Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same kind of iron discipline prevailed when more than 50,000 mourners assembled in a vigil outside the Palace of Justice, where the bodies of some of the slain lawyers were allowed to lie in state. Though the government at first had sought to ban any funeral ceremony, the crowds were kept in order by efficient left-wing marshals wearing red armbands. While helmeted riot police looked on from a distance, the demonstrators stood in silence, many with clenched fists in the air, uttering an occasional shout of "Assassins!" quickly hushed by the marshals. It was an impressive display...
...around the prison, 20 miles south of Salt Lake City, security was tight. Religious groups announced plans to hold a vigil outside the prison, and the war den was worried about the possibility that demonstrators might try to storm the prison in order to stop the execution. Several helicopters were reserved by reporters and cameramen, but the Federal Aviation Administration banned all aircraft from the area. The execution site is a closely guarded secret. Even the five-man firing squad will not know the location until shortly before the event. Afterward, according to the plan, a hearse will transport Gilmore...
...dingy foyer of the Utah State Prison, Gilmore's aunt, Ida Damico, and her daughter, Brenda Nicol, maintain a sort of vigil. They say, though, that if they had been on Gilmore's jury, they would have voted to convict...
...thought and sympathy is with Andy and his family during their long vigil...
Seven days later the story was Page One again. In prose evocative of earlier eras, Times Science Writer John Noble Wilford declared: "The search for the Loch Ness Monster has begun." Already 8,000 color photographs had been taken in the "murky waters," an "allnight vigil" had been mounted, and Expedition Leader Robert H. Rines had announced, "We have maximized our chances for success...