Word: vigilable
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Vomit on Joy. Inside, several hundred security men were assigned to mingle with delegates and spectators while others stood vigil on catwalks overseeing the entire arena. There was even talk of putting men in subterranean service areas. Employees of the amphitheatre, the neighboring Stock Yard Inn and major hotels were all checked for security. Police from coast to coast were asked to inform the FBI as lead ing protesters left for Chicago...
Born in Austin to deaf-mute parents, Thornberry used sign language until he was three, when he first learned to talk. When he was an infant, William and Mary Thornberry slept in shifts so that one could always keep a vigil beside his cradle, since neither could hear Homer's cries. The family was so poor that when William, a carpenter built a home, the windows were boarded with wood for two years until he could scrape together money for windowpanes...
...hand, whispered into his now-deaf ear. His sisters, Jean Smith and Pat Lawford, hovered near by. Ted Kennedy, his shirttail flapping, strode back and forth, inspecting medical charts and asking what they meant. Outside on Lucas Street, beneath the fifth-floor window, hundreds of Angelenos gathered for the vigil; crowds were to be with Bobby Kennedy the rest of the week. A local printer rushed out 5,000 orange and black bumper stickers: PRAY FOR BOBBY. His daughter and other girls gave them away to all takers...
...community leader can match the Boston School Committee's influence in rousing Roxbury to anger. By most accounts, the community first came alive in the spring and summer of 1965. That spring, Roxbury's Reverend Vernon Carter kept a month-long vigil at the entrance of the School Department at 15 Beacon St., dramatizing the issues of de facto segregation and poor ghetto schooling...
...Japan as a counterforce to the strong U.S. task force there. While the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise moved from a point 45 miles off the North Korean coast to about 100 miles in a tension-easing gesture, two smaller U.S. flattops and supporting ships maintained their close-in vigil...