Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another when, mortally hit, his Sabre jet crashed. For his valiant last fight Pilot Davis' name was added in death last week to the proud roster of Medal of Honor winners. At Lubbock, Texas, in the home he bought only a week before going to Korea, his widow was still bitter. "If I could feel that he lost his life for some good reason," Mrs. Davis, left with three young children, once said, "I could feel better about...
Even though he has lost to a great extent his undergraduate awe of Harvard, Bate still feels a healthy respect for the University, and cannot quite reconcile himself to his position. For some years, he admits, he felt like Huckleberry Finn at the mansion of the Widow Douglas, afraid that anything he touched or tried would bring a reprimand from authority...
Income from the funds, established under the will of Rebecca A. Westengard, his widow, will provide for students of promise in the Law School and other parts of the University to travel and study in Europe, the British Isles, and South America. In addition it will allow students from those countries to study here...
...shoebox houses pock-marked with bullet holes. He poked his pistol at the heavy-meshed windows, to make sure that they were strong enough to keep out hand grenades. A rifle barked in the distance. We turned about at the end of the village near an abandoned house. A widow had lived there until one morning last June, when three men poked dynamite underneath the floor and blew her to pieces. U.N. officers tracked the killers to the Jordan border...
...upon which Thomas plays his song of humanity. And Captain Cat, though one of the three narrators and Thomas' central figure, is seldom more than a vacuum tube to broadcast the author's lyric commentary to his listeners. With characters like Mr. and Mrs. Cherry Owen or the fussy Widow Ogmore-Pritchard ("Before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes"), Thomas allows more individuality and they reciprocate by adding the lusty strength and humor which make the play memorable...