Word: vigilance
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...vigil was one of the few perceptible signs of anxiety last week as Yugoslavs prepared for the inevitable. "I hope Tito will recover," said a high-ranking government official, "but we are aware that every man has to die." Television announcers were instructed to acquire appropriately dark suits. For three days, radio stations played only somber music, but then relaxed somewhat. Newspapers published the best-known utterances from Tito's 35-year rule, almost as though they were already posthumous...
...momentum?" asked Gallagher. Flynn jokes, "If we could take a string of 'losses' like that to the convention we would be in fine shape." These oversimplified responses ignore reality: Kennedy's dramatic personal appearances have revived his campaign after the Iowa disaster, while Carter has kept a grim vigil in the Oval Office...
Louis neighborhood in 1919. An Irish-American mother, on the lower rungs of the middle class, and her four daughters are sweating out an August vigil for the sole son and brother, waiting for him to come back from service in World...
Stunned and grieving, a thousand residents of the nearby coastal village of Warrenpoint gathered tearfully in the town square for a hastily arranged vigil presided over by both Protestant and Catholic clergy. Afterward some walked to the scene of the explosions to lay flowers by the roadside even as the military still searched for remains...
Lawrence's biggest coup was the locally famous Norman-Taylor case. In 1975 nearly 20 agents gave up on a remote airstrip vigil when a smuggler's plane coming in was accidentally spooked and did not return. Changing tactics, Lawrence followed the faint tracks of two trucks that had passed by the site. Forty miles away at 4 a.m. he found tire marks where an airplane had landed on the concrete highway, then a roadside spot marked by footprints, broken shrubbery and more tire tracks. Ten miles later at a dirt turnoff, he found fresh tire tracks that...