Word: vigillantly
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...tragic vigil is interrupted by a soldier with six bodies--hanging on six trees, the last a holly--which he has been assigned to guard. While his adoration of the window's perfect grief blossoms into physical passion, which the aid of a jug of wine, one of his bodies is foully stolen, rendering him certainly its successor. For section six, paragraph three of the regulations quite definitely prescribes hanging for such neglect of duty. The solution is a triumph of wit over propriety...
...London, worried by English concern about the case, released an official statement of the facts. Not only Communists took up the cry. In New York, Albert Einstein signed a newspaper ad protesting a miscarriage of justice. Mrs. McGee, a captive of the Communists, addressed party rallies, staged an "allnight vigil" in front of the White House...
...last week some 517 of the faithful, masterminded by the Communist-front Congress of Civil Rights, descended on Richmond to establish a "vigil of prayer." The Communist calliope swung into high. The Union of Polish Youth cabled a demand for a "full pardon for the seven innocent Negro youths." Moscow trotted out its tame intellects. "In the name of justice and the sacred rights of man, we raise our wrathful voice in protest," said Shostakovich, Prokofiev & Co. The radio of the Chinese People's Government broadcast an appeal to stay "this barbaric sentence...
...week's end, while the "vigil" continued in freezing weather, four of the seven rapists died in the state's electric chair. Early this week, on schedule, the three remaining men, perpetrators of a brutal crime, were executed...
...Twenty-two Chicago ministers organized an "eleventh hour, prayer-for-peace vigil," managed to draw only a few dozen people into the chapel where it was held. But after Disc Jockey Martin Block put a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on his program for 15 minutes of prayer for peace, he was able to announce that the switchboard at Manhattan's station WNEW "lit up like a Christmas tree...