Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply sit until he receives a sign. What he gets instead is a toothache, which drives him out of hiding and into the care of Allison, a young schizophrenic who has escaped from a sanitarium and is living in a greenhouse right beneath the cave. Emerging from his vigil, Will Barrett goes through the glass roof and literally falls in love...
...samizdat; it was published in the U.S. last year by Simon & Schuster. Ruslan tells of a concentration-camp dog, pitilessly trained to guard convicts, that becomes a stray when most of the Stalinist camps are closed down in 1956. Ruslan, and other dogs of his kind, keep a vigil at the local railway station, hoping for the arrival of the familiar convoys of prisoners whom they can once again herd to the camp. "Anyone who waits with such single-minded devotion is always rewarded in the end." Sure enough, one day "an incredible horde" came tumbling out of a train...
...cordoned off the seven-story concrete building, refusing to admit even the relatives of other patients. Inside, a team of 20 doctors labored to foster the ousted monarch's recovery from emergency surgery on his cancerous spleen. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak reports on the tense medical vigil...
...been spending much of the past few months waving to diplomatic acquaintances imprisoned in one foreign embassy or another. "It has reached an epidemic stage," Diederich cabled from Bogotá, Colombia, where he was covering the seizure of the Dominican Republic's embassy. "In El Salvador, I stood vigil outside the French, Venezuelan, Costa Rican, Panamanian and Spanish embassies. I reported on the burning of the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City. Once it was skyjacking. Now it's the seizure of a foreign embassy, that sacrosanct piece of land where a foreign flag casts a shadow and local...
...vigil was one of the few perceptible signs of anxiety last week as Yugoslavs prepared for the inevitable. "I hope Tito will recover," said a high-ranking government official, "but we are aware that every man has to die." Television announcers were instructed to acquire appropriately dark suits. For three days, radio stations played only somber music, but then relaxed somewhat. Newspapers published the best-known utterances from Tito's 35-year rule, almost as though they were already posthumous...