Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mrs. Melius (who has no children of her own) went back to being a housewife again. The taxpayers of tiny (pop. 53) Mount Washington, Mass, paid her $120 for her month-long vigil, and considered it a bargain. Under a Massachusetts law, every incorporated town is required to offer its citizens "an opportunity" for elementary education, or bear the cost of sending the local kids elsewhere. Parents of Mount Washington's three elementary pupils boycott the local school because the one across the state line in Hillsdale, N.Y. is bigger & better...
...according to Japanese legend, the Buddhist priest Bodhidharma tried to stay awake for seven years. In the fifth year he got sleepy and cut off his eyelids. They took root. From the leaves of the bushes that grew, he made a brew that enabled him to finish his vigil. That's how tea began...
During his long vigil, the President: ¶ Renewed his plea to Congress for a long-range public-health program which would authorize: 1) national health insurance, supported by a payroll tax; 2) federal funds for expanded public-health services, increased medical research and education, more doctors and hospitals...
...shorter stories, "The Vigil," by William A. Emerson, is neat and subdued, creating atmosphere in a small space. In "Kenneth," A. K. Lowis has satirized the slick magazine story by substituting grotesque animals for the even more grotesque creatures that inhabit the originals. The result is almost pointless, but delightful...
...first meeting with the committee sure that he was being put on the spot. But when he found that the committee's purpose was to help with his problems rather than to seek his scalp, he cooperated enthusiastically. One weekend the committee kept a 30-hour vigil (six-hour shifts of two men each) to observe the jail's routine. Result: 1) a program of wise reforms carried out with the help of individual committee members; 2) public credit to the jailer...