Word: vigilancy
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...vision. People came to talk to him, and to see the place on the hill. They brought flowers and votive candles, and ailing children and crippled sisters, and the wept-over photographs of sons killed in the war. They watched, hopefully and awestruck, while Joe kept his nightly vigil. The crowd grew; people came from as far away as Cleveland; last week, on the 17th night, 30,000 jammed into the dirty lot and the nearby streets...
...Rumor & Vigil. The U.S. replied to the Japs, and again the nation waited. Rumors flew. The radio tried hard to keep up: "This is a Reuter's report of a Domei broadcast picked up by the Chungking Radio...
Sixty-two hours after the first Jap offer the vigil, still continued. Then came the U.P.'s false report of final Jap surrender, and in the two minutes before it was denied a carnival din began. Firecrackers popped in Manhattan's Chinatown; searchlights swept the skies over Miami. Bonfires blazed in Pittsburgh...
Next day the vigil was resumed. But the guessing game had lost its fascination, everybody knew that the Japs had been beaten. The precise minute of capitulation no longer made much difference. Yet when the radio and press flashed the word that the Japs had accepted U.S. terms there were enough of vigilant stay-ups to start one more round of celebrations...
...hands of the Crime last Saturday, that the ulterior regions of their Ibis had been painted red some observers termed the color crimson-Monday night. In seeking a temporary armistice after Tuesday's fray, Lampy revealed that his stuffed Ibis, even more sacred than the metal one that stands vigil over Bow Street, had been lost in Saturday's revels...