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...sound of their abdominal rumblings. Ashes fell a foot deep on nearby villages, destroyed coffee crops for miles around. Guatemala City was under a cloud that spread from Mexico to Nicaragua. After two days the shocks stopped. The city still stood. The buzzards went back to their vigil...
...popular mind, Queen Helen has stood for years as one of the few untainted factors in Rumanian public life. Her sickroom vigil loomed momentarily bigger than the election. With profound disquiet the nation learned that she was running a slight temperature, due probably to the effects of inoculation and exhaustion. Crown Prince Mihai's temperature went down to 99.7 He was better. Her Majesty appeared to repose confidence in only one other human being, an elderly English nannie who shared her vigil...
...have betrayed India," began Mr. Gandhi. "I shall not complain if you beat me. I have no bodyguard. God alone keeps vigil over me. Some men think me crazy and a fool because of my love for my enemies, but that is the very foundation of my whole life's work and creed...
They rode as far as Harmon where rail road police took up the vigil. At Hudson, N. Y., Diamond and the Golden Wedding rye were carefully transferred to a Cadillac limousine, ferried across the river, driven to Acra...
...slept for 5,000 years. For his Coronation on Nov. 2 he decreed this striking ceremony: the people to stand all night in a vast multitude around the Coptic Cathedral of St. George, each standee holding a lighted candle; the Emperor and Empress to pass an all-night vigil inside St. George's, then to be crowned amid solemn chanting by the Coptic Abuna (Our Father) Egyptian Archbishop of Abyssinia...