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Word: widowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over how to accept him at all. He chafes and broods and breaks loose; he talks to prostitutes in a bar, talks to one of them in her room; is crushed by the death of his grandmother (well played by Estelle Hemsley), restored to life by an ardent young widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Shows in Manhattan, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...body of Pfc. Alton B. Sterner, killed last June in Korea, came home to Rockwood (pop. 1,237), Pa., with an official Army escort, Sergeant Ira Frank Green, 25. He had known Sterner and had been in correspondence with the dead man's 19-year-old widow Alma. Green asked Alma to marry him. The widow quickly said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Affair of the Heart | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

Married. Rosemary Turner McMahon, 36, widow of the late Brien McMahon, Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1945-52) and head of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; and Baron Robert Silvercruys, 59, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S.; he for the first time, she for the second; in a quiet church ceremony; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 28, 1953 | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

Married. Lana Turner, 33, cinemactress (The Merry Widow); and Lex Barker, 34, Hollywood's tenth Tarzan of the Apes; he for the third time, she for the fifth (her previous marriages to Millionaire Playboy Bob Topping. Businessman Steven Crane-two marriages-Bandleader Artie Shaw, all ended in divorce); in Turin, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...strongest personalities aboard the death ship was a Mrs. Nunn, the widow of a British colonial officer who went down with the Rooseboom. She became a sort of spiritual mother for the derelicts. A few days before she died, she took a Bible that someone had salvaged and read a religious service to all her companions. Not long after that, Gibson organized a counterattack against the murder gang and threw them overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Art of Not Dying | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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