Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no formal meeting of the War Cabinet. But all night long Prime Minister Churchill, Ambassador Winant and members of the Cabinet kept informal vigil at No. 10, weighing and discussing each fragment of news as it came in. Again Winston Churchill used the telephone, this time to call Franklin Roosevelt in Washington. They discussed a synchronized declaration of war on Japan...
...German conquerors of France had anticipated an upsurge of national feeling on Armistice Day and had destroyed all monuments commemorating French victories on the old World War I battlefields of Alsace and Lorraine. Left standing in lonely vigil were the stone sentries erected by Americans...
...climb out through the attic light, slide down the slates onto a flat part of the roof and begin the vigil. Most of the household are in the basement by now, but they will bring up some refreshment in an hour...
...Bruno, nearly two years his junior, was a captain; Edda Ciano, the girl, who had very nearly been killed by British flyers during the Balkan fight. Bruno's pretty wife Gina was also there. The other Mussolinis-Anna, Maria and Romano, mere schoolchildren-were too young for this vigil...
Dressed in the traditional garb of John Harvard, Barnes and Klaw will march on the "Eternal Vigil" of the American Peace Mobilization group. By joining this picket line that continually winds about the white House, they hope to show the President their determination that the United States should no participate in the present...