Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planted in March on the Jefferson mound. It has the classic vase shape of Ulmus americana. Its trunk is already 4-in. in diameter, and its upper branches in a couple of years will brush the lower limbs of the patriarch. It will be ready to stand vigil for another 150 years in the name of the Adams family on the ground that Jefferson ordered reshaped...
...protesters sang and held candles underneath the windows of Dana Palmer House, where members of Harvard Educators for Social Responsibility--the Ed School group that organized the vigil--said they believed some Corporation members were staying before today's meeting...
...group of students and faculty from the School of Education is organizing a campus-wide vigil this Sunday, urging Harvard to divest from companies that make nuclear weapons...
...candlelight vigil, planned by the Harvard Educators for Social Responsibility (HESR), will take place in front of the Faculty Club, where some Harvard Corporation members will be staying before a Monday meeting, organizers said. The group will sing lyrics decrying nuclear weapons fitted to the tunes of Christmas carols...
Perhaps, but to many of his supporters Lech Walesa, or "Leszek" as they affectionately call him, is still the man who has become inextricably linked with the word Solidarity. For three days, hundreds of supporters kept a vigil beneath the second-story window of his apartment block on the outskirts of Gdansk. Suddenly, late in the evening, an excited murmur spread through the milling crowd. Before the convoy of four cars could pull to a stop, it was mobbed by surging onlookers who struck up the chant, "Leszek, Leszek." At the center of the commotion was a familiar figure with...