Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Louis neighborhood in 1919. An Irish-American mother, on the lower rungs of the middle class, and her four daughters are sweating out an August vigil for the sole son and brother, waiting for him to come back from service in World...
Stunned and grieving, a thousand residents of the nearby coastal village of Warrenpoint gathered tearfully in the town square for a hastily arranged vigil presided over by both Protestant and Catholic clergy. Afterward some walked to the scene of the explosions to lay flowers by the roadside even as the military still searched for remains...
Lawrence's biggest coup was the locally famous Norman-Taylor case. In 1975 nearly 20 agents gave up on a remote airstrip vigil when a smuggler's plane coming in was accidentally spooked and did not return. Changing tactics, Lawrence followed the faint tracks of two trucks that had passed by the site. Forty miles away at 4 a.m. he found tire marks where an airplane had landed on the concrete highway, then a roadside spot marked by footprints, broken shrubbery and more tire tracks. Ten miles later at a dirt turnoff, he found fresh tire tracks that...
...Graham, looking haggard, stayed in Tallahassee, avoiding anti-death penalty protesters who blocked his outer office at the state capitol and who kept vigil at the front gate of his mansion, chanting "Bloody Bob! Bloody Bob!" Graham supports capital punishment as a deterrent, maintaining that it is "not inconsistent with Christian values." Said he, while signing the death warrants...
Boudreau said the protesters will march to Draper Laboratories, a developer of nuclear weapons guidance systems, after the rally to hear more speakers and for a silent vigil...