Word: vigilable
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...scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradoxes flourish in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones during the past fortnight disclosed the following...
...board with a skeleton crew, harassed Captain Johan van Dulken yammered for tugs, kept one eye cocked on the horizon for their approach, the other on the sky for signs of bad weather, which he well knew would batter his ship to bits. For five days his worried vigil was rewarded with calm weather, as speedily-marshaled salvagers arrived and went to work. Having only two salvage ships at hand last week when it was estimated more than 50 tugs were needed, officials of Merritt, Chapman & Scott Inc., No. 1 U. S. salvagers, decided to make the Rotterdam rescue herself...
...Senator was taken straight to the operating room. On examining his wound physicians found that the bullet had twice pierced his colon, made its way out through his back. On the operating table, the intestinal punctures were sewed up. Then Huey Long was put to bed and a mass vigil began: by his wife, daughter, two boys and three hastily reconciled brothers at the bedside; by his miscellaneous henchmen in the corridor outside; by a brigade of newshawks downstairs; by a truculent detachment of State troopers and bodyguards around the building who were ordered to shoot photographers on sight...
...hand bandaged in a handkerchief. Out of the handkerchief spat two bullets. President McKinley slumped on the arm of an aide. Instantly the young secretary was at his side. "My wife," murmured the wounded President, "be careful, Cortelyou, how you tell her-oh, be careful." During the eight-day vigil that followed, it was Secretary Cortelyou who took charge of the dying President's sick room...
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