Word: vigilance
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...April is nail-biting time for high school seniors as they stand vigil over their mailboxes, looking for letters of acceptance from colleges. The weeks that follow, on the other hand, are nail-biting times for the colleges, as they fret over how many students will accept their acceptances, fill their dormitories and keep their budgets in the black...
...children, three girls and a younger boy. shared the agonizing 54-day vigil with their white-haired 62-year-old mother, the daughter of an M.D. Son Giovanni, 20. a law student at the University of Rome, and the youngest daughter. Agnese. 26. a university student, lived with their parents in a comfortable duplex on Rome's suburban Via del Forte Trionfale. The second daughter, Anna Giordano, 29. a pediatrician reputedly as meditative and complex as her father, came home again to await word. Anna, although seven months pregnant, at one point evaded reporters, walked a quarter...
...same forcefulness set the tone of the vigil. Signora Moro turned over the cleaning and cooking on which she prided herself to Emma Amicone. Giovanni's fiancee, and concentrated on working for her husband's freedom. Nearly nightly she telephoned party leaders, demanding that they agree to a negotiated release. When the Red Brigades in a communiqué criticized Moro's political career and personal life, she reacted by furiously smashing a vase of flowers...
...cruel seesaw of suspense, the vigil for Moro goes...
...microscopic handwriting on his personal notepaper, "not so much because of my humble and affectionate intercession, but because of his dignity as a common brother in humanity, and for the cause of real social progress." The deadline passed with no word on Moro's fate: the vigil went...