Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charter had promised to keep the presses rolling as long as serious talks with prospective buyers were under way. The city pitched in some brotherly love with a SAVE OUR BULLETIN campaign: on Jan. 18, 300 loyal supporters sporting S.O.B. buttons held a candlelight vigil in front of the paper's offices in subfreezing weather, and Mayor William Green offered tax breaks and low-interest loans to help finance a purchase. But in the end, Charter could not even give the paper away. Its terms: $29.5 million in promissory notes, and guaranteed payment of $12 million in severance costs...
While the search went on, Dozier's wife Judith received messages of sympathy from both President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Maintaining a vigil at her home in Verona with her two children, Mrs. Dozier appeared for a second time on TV to thank the Italian people for their support. Said she: "Please continue to pray. You are in all our hearts, and we know we are in your hearts...
...springs have passed since some 50 women stood a fruitless vigil outside Agassiz House, while the Radcliffe Board of Trustees voted to abolish the Radcliffe Forum. The protest has long since ended. The decision, so "unacceptable" then, has been accepted, and by many, approved. The Office of the Associate Dean has replaced the Forum as Radcliffe's umbrella office for seminars, speeches and programs on women's issues. Everyone agrees that much has changed...
...participants plan discussions, civil-disobedience training and prop-making workshops on Sunday morning, followed by a demonstration at the Air and Space Museum, which houses replicas of atomic bombs, and a night-long vigil at the White House...
...show had run its course. Elvis was so stoned he could not get to the bathroom at night. He was pinned into bathtowels to keep the sheets clean. When he died of "heart failure" in 1977 at age 42, keeping his insomniac vigil in the reading chair of his opulent bathroom, one Hollywood kibitzer acidly remarked, "Good career move...