Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falling snow dusted his overcoat lapels, Tom Brokaw stood in windswept Geneva's -10 degrees C chill to anchor NBC's evening newscast. There was no clear journalistic reason for Brokaw's uncomfortable vigil. He was not interviewing anyone or waiting for a nearby event to happen. The floodlit tower clock behind him informed viewers only that he was not appearing live but on tape. Brokaw was, however, providing visible proof that NBC, like its network rivals, had spent a reported $500,000 to enable its analysts, dozens of support staffers and tons of equipment to hover near...
...care for their dying children. To follow every step of Schroeder's progress, Dolan, along with TIME'S Teresa Barker, has been almost as closely tethered to the Humana press center as the patient is to the machinery that powers his artificial heart. During her long reporting vigil, she has found herself frequently checking her own vital signs. "After six days of nonstop reporting," says she, "most of the journalists covering the implant were ready for intensive care. Any physician walking into the press center would have prescribed immediate bed rest...
...night before [Robert F.] Kennedy's funeral mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, a young man appeared to keep vigil with the Kennedy family and friends; later, during the mass, he sat alone in a back pew, weeping. His name was Tom Hayden...
...some, the weekend came close to achieving that end. "If the country rejected us, and it did," said John Ruehlmann, 37, a former Army sergeant, "we can get together here, bound by the monument." That harmony was expressed in a variety of ways, from a candlelight vigil to a '60s nostalgia concert by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; the mood throughout shuttled between tearful meditation and joyous, beery reunions. At the end, just about everyone seemed to feel a little better...
...Adventist institution with an excellent reputation in pediatric cardiology. Doctors there explained to Teresa that the baby would probably die within a few days and that she could either leave her at the hospital or take her home. Raedel tearfully told the Los Angeles Times that after a sleepless vigil, "watching her to make sure she was breathing," they took the child home...