Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have observed the twelfth anniversary of his disappearance. He was last seen entering a cab in Manhattan on August 6, 1930. The city's Missing Persons Bureau still gets false tips on his whereabouts, still keeps his case open. Insurance companies have closed it, have paid his widow...
...helmeted sentry crumpled with a guttural gurgle, presently lay still. Beside him a young Polish widow and her companion assessed their handiwork expertly, faded into the night. In sentry garroting, "it is better to work in pairs-a strong woman to do the actual strangling, and an attractive woman to divert the subject's attention...
Procrustes. In Birmingham, Ala., a widow sued an undertaking firm for $75,000, charging that the undertaker sawed both feet off her husband's body so that it would fit in a small casket...
...caught on the run, socialites now hold late-afternoon cocktail parties and buffet suppers, where busy guests can pop in for a quick one, instead of formal parties. One of the most popular functions is an open-house buffet luncheon served every day by Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, widow of the late New York Congressman, in her mansion near the War and State Departments...
...haloed decoy to swindle poor whites out of their land in a railroad hoax. It was his own conscience when, realizing the hoax and achingly needing money, he had to decide what to do. More dubiously, the New South was his brother's ice-hearted, erogenous widow Rachel, willing to back the hoax, eager to watch men die, dallying with a nincompoop Yankee officer whom Melancthon felt a need to kill in honorable duel...