Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DESCENDED. JULIA ("Butterfly") HILL, 25, environmental activist, after a 738-day treetop vigil to save a 600-year-old redwood from loggers; near Stafford, Calif. Hill left her 18-story-high perch after Pacific Lumber Co. agreed to spare the tree, located on company property...
...died, the funeral train moved slowly through the rural South to a service in Washington, then past the now thriving cities of the North, and finally to Hyde Park, N.Y., in the Hudson River Valley, where he was born. Wherever it passed, Americans by the hundreds of thousands stood vigil, those who had loved him and those who came to witness a momentous passage in the life of the nation. Men stood with their arms around the shoulders of their wives and mothers. They stood in clusters, heads bowed, openly weeping. They clasped their hands in prayer. A father lifted...
...Harvard's campus yesterday, students tabled, passed out red ribbons and attended a vigil last night on the Boston Common. World AIDS Day events will continue today...
...vigil, Antonio J. Torres, an advisor to the "Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques," said a continued U.S. military presence in Vieques would have a negative effect on the island's economy...
Several members of Gore's blocking group joined students who were holding a vigil for their friends inside...