Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they strolled under the aged oaks, Franklin Roosevelt's widow pointed out to Harry Truman the places where her husband, as a boy, had joyously discovered Indian relics, and where, as President, he had spoken at the ground-breaking for his cherished Memorial Library. Leaving newsmen behind, the pair entered the library for a quiet look.Then, still together, they walked slowly toward the hedge-rimmed rose garden...
...cold wind blew out of the deep wooded Hudson valley and a bleak half-light streaked across the sky, President Roosevelt's widow and his successor stood in silence, with bowed heads. Only Secret Service men were near...
...implicitly with the "war-climate" rather than those which treat of "strange growths." In the title piece, relaxation of wartime travel restrictions lures a middle-aged man back to the seashore resort which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...
...thereby enabled to charge tourists twice as much rent for his rooms as any of his followers (Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow). The second lesson in perspective came through World War I, in which Private Schoenberner, who had hitherto been crazy about horses, was given the job of grooming them. "It is amazing how different a horse looks if seen from above, from the saddle, or from below, when you are standing...
...Tokyo last week Mrs. Fujiko Homma, wife of Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, knew that she would soon be a widow. She had fought with quiet tenacity to save the General's life, had broken an ancient Japanese custom-according to which wives should be seen, not heard-by appearing in court and giving a newspaper interview in her husband's defense. With the submissive dignity of a Japanese lady, she related that she was his second wife, that she had borne him two children -a girl, now 18, and a boy now 16, both now attending school...