Word: vigillantly
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Bucking for Sainthood. A salesman for a religious supply house plagues the sisters with his sales talk for Rosary clickers (to show you where you were when you fell asleep), electric vigil lights ("flip it on for ten minutes on bus or car-gives you a lift for that tired feeling"), rosaries in which "each bead contains Waters of Jordan and a blessed guppy...
...press conferences. Meantime he haunted the doctors, stood attendance on the President's family, kept in close touch with Vice President Nixon and White House Staff Secretary Colonel Andrew Goodpaster. He got home twice, but only to shower and change his clothes. Through the long Friday night vigil, he gulped black coffee, sometimes lacing it with Scotch...
...Panama to subdue some bulls, underwent a more unnerving ordeal-becoming a father for the first time. From the time that his wife, Italian Cinemactress Lucia Bose, felt her first labor pains until his son Luis Miguel Jr. was born 29 hours later, Matador Dominguin kept a weary vigil in the hospital. For 13 hours in the delivery room, he stood by in a pale green surgical gown, at last saw son Luis delivered by Caesarean section. Said big Luis: "If I were ever in a bullfight as frightening as that, I'd never fight again...
...Union white women, most of them middle-aged housewives, all wearing over-the-shoulder black sashes, converged on Cape Town last week and paraded silently down Cape Town's main street. Then they took stations at five-yard intervals in front of Parliament and began a 48-hour vigil of silent protest, ignoring rotten vegetables hurled by young hoodlums. As leather-lunged Prime Minister Johannes Strydom convened Parliament in joint session in the final act of his long campaign to write white supremacy into the law of his tragically divided land, the silent ladies, lined up in mute...
...want of a hearse, her family postponed the funeral, and for two nights and three days stood vigil by the rough-hewn wooden coffin in which Mavis lay. Last week, with a hearse and 200 friends of the bereaved gathered outside the Sithebe hut, Mavis' father stood ready, hammer in hand, to nail the coffin's lid, while Mavis' grandmother knelt down with a basin of water and washed the girl's wan face. Slowly, the body stirred and turned over, face down. Father and grandmother dropped hammer and basin and rushed from the hut. Followed...