Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vigorously recounted to the class his participation in the previous night's events--the meeting in Emerson Hall and the following rally. He said that he had decoyed the police while his counterparts were erecting the shanties. He was part of the protesters' legal council and had maintained a vigil at the shanties the entire evening. He spoke of the evening proudly, wearing a boyish grin. There was no doubt he had strongly held beliefs on the subject of divestment...
Thursday's Memorial Church service will featurespeeches from Divinity School professors andfollowing the service activists plan to hold acandlelight vigil and march down to the riverhouses...
...measuring water loss and looking for oxygen, carbon, sulfur and other elements in the coma's gases, until March 6, when the sun will begin blocking the Venusian view of the comet. On that day, however, the first of an international flotilla of spacecraft will take over Halley's vigil. The Soviet probe Vega 1 will fly through the coma, passing within 6,000 miles of the nucleus. It will be followed by another Soviet craft, two Japanese probes, and the European Space Agency's Giotto, which will make the most daring pass of all. On March 13, Giotto will...
...home of the two papers, as well as of the tabloids the Sun and the News of the World. Ringing the Wapping compound are surveillance cameras, fences 8 ft. high and thick coils of concertina wire studded with razor blades. The police allow only a few pickets to stand vigil at the gate, but some nights thousands of protesters show up to do battle with hundreds of bobbies, all the while screaming epithets at their onetime boss...
...minutes ticked away, the knot of American diplomats waiting on the darkened runway of Francois Duvalier international airport grew increasingly edgy. They had been keeping a tense vigil since 1 a.m., waiting for Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. A day earlier, Duvalier had sent an urgent message to the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, the capital. It implored the Americans to help him and his family flee the country that, after 28 years, was no longer under their control. Now Duvalier was two hours late. The Americans at the airport wondered...