Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil agreed that "they quite obviously were not trying to help...
...times since, Sutherland has come to London to take up his vigil near the trains, hopeful that Wilfred will step out of one of them. When help from the R.A.F. and Scotland Yard reached a dead end, Sutherland had pictures of his son enlarged and distributed, with an offer of a reward for fruitful information. Sutherland stubbornly hangs on to the belief that his son will come back to London for another Easter holiday. "As long as I live," he vowed, "I'll be here at Easter, waiting...
...London airport, a crowd of expectant reporters and photographers and a group of doctors awaited the arrival of a transatlantic plane from New York. The object of their vigil: Actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who was bringing his sick and troubled wife Vivien Leigh home from Hollywood, where she collapsed with a nervous breakdown a fortnight...
...Weather's Terrible." Back up in the mountains, Larry Schinke was keeping a terrible vigil. When he recovered consciousness he found himself under the snow, his feet higher than his head, and with one arm thrown up over his face. The arm made a small air pocket and allowed him to breathe. But, wise in the survival rules of mountaineering, he moved not a muscle for fear of re-starting the slide. He did not know how deep he was (actually he was down only three feet), but he could see light through the snow. He assumed that...
...statement squelched rumors that some undergraduates might not be able to purchase any seats at all for the game. Several sophomores, however, started an all-night vigil outside the H.A.A. offices about 11 p.m., and more had gathered at press time...