Word: vigilancy
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Allan Lee Whitman Jr. '53, who is in charge of the Weld Hall Committee for the Defense of the John Harvard Statute, plans to have several men on all-night vigil tonight in case invaders slip past police...
...time for eating a spiced Dutch cookie called "Speculatius." St. Nicholas' Eve is the time for drinking "Bishop's Wine." (To a bottle of claret, add four inches of stick cinnamon, six cloves, simmer about five minutes and serve hot. "In the chill of the night vigil, it will make you feel like a bishop...
Outside the city, the quake shook down farmhouses and whole hamlets. Landslides wiped out roads, dammed streams and rivers. By nightfall tragic processions of Indians carrying rude coffins had formed on the roads outside Ambato. All along the way, other Indians with lighted candles kept vigil beside the dead for whom coffins had still to be made...
...Saturday, and all afternoon the crowds thickened. By midnight, 12,000 were standing in the chilly spring night-grave, subdued neighbors, sightseers and dating teenagers, men & women in evening dress. In a car a little back from the scene, David Fiscus and his wife sat out their vigil. To sympathetic queries, he said wearily: "Let's not discuss it, please...
...weeks Mike's parents shared a 24-hour vigil by his bedside. His father gave up his job as an auto repairman, his mother turned over the care of her other five children to a social worker. The hospital set up a special kitchen so that Mrs. Rector could cook the protein-rich eggs and hamburgers her son required to build up his ravaged tissue, coax him into eating...