Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bits of information. They were cheered by the news that many of their 24 friends had been released in Beirut or Algiers. "We're waiting, we're praying, we're hoping," said the Rev. Robert Garrity of St. Margaret Mary Church in Algonquin, where parishioners maintained an all-night vigil...
...Frustacis, though, had no regrets despite the emotionally draining vigil. Said Sam: "We knew it was going to be a touch-and-go situation." At week's end the prospects for the surviving infants were still uncertain...
...were permitted to stand at one road near the cemetery. One of them, Dov Hikind, an American whose mother had survived Auschwitz, said angrily, "I still can't believe I am here to see my President rehabilitate the SS." Sixty members of the World Jewish Student Union held a vigil in the town square. Reagan came close to a protest scene only as his motorcade passed through the downtown area en route to the air base. There was a brief scuffle as police carrying plastic shields broke up a fight that had started among the protesters. Overall, the demonstrations were...
...rhythms than by his actual words. "Hooray, hooray," we all shouted, basking in the sunshine and the communal glow of self-congratulation. After the speech a few hundred of us, still in the grip of moral ecstasy, stood before President Bok's office and shouted things. An all-night vigil began. It rained, and began to get cold; a few, huddled under umbrellas, stayed the night and then departed the next day. Almost three weeks later, 45 students occupied the 17 Quincy Street headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards for a full day. Before they left...
Troilus (Nick Davis). Hector's younger brother and puppy-dog adulator, is distracted from the more sanguinary, duties of war by the lovely Cressida (Laurie Galluccio). vigil daughter of a Trojan defector. After much hemming and hawing, the two innocents manage to get together with a little help from Cressida's uncle Pandarus (Nick Lawrence) only to discover that a Greco-Trojan conference committee has decided that Cressida must be turned over to enemy camp in exchange for a Trojan prisoner-of-war. Thus, the play ends with Troilus and Cressida cursing the Gods on Mount Olympus, Pandarus cursing himself...