Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with officials in Minnesota. Their preliminary investigation did not reveal evidence of a communicable disease, an inherited malady or exposure to a noxious agent. The mysterious deaths have, however, had an easily identifiable side effect: an increase in homesickness Says Si Thao, an interpreter for Lue Thao's widow: "She has no skills, no education and she cannot speak English Now she has no husband. All she wants to do is go back to Laos...
...eventually founding a Nebraska radio station. She married the local soda jerk, who eventually became Vice President. Then, in 1979, shortly after the death of his wife, Max Brown, 68, decided to write a letter to his former Huron (S. Dak.) High School classmate. Muriel Humphrey, Hubert's widow, also 68, quickly responded, and Max ventured to ask her out to lunch. Eighteen months later -and a week before Valentine's Day-the two were quietly married. Her four children and ten grandchildren and his two children and five grandchildren attended the ceremony at Humphrey's Tonka...
...will take me more than five months to get over Peter's death," declared Lynne Frederick, 26, last Christmas in Gstaad, where she was recovering in the company of David Frost, 41, an old flame. Exactly one month later, Peter Sellers' widow marched down the aisle with her consoler, the eminently eligible British television star and producer, in a quiet ceremony in Theberton, England. Sellers' children professed outrage. "This only proves her love for my father was paper thin," snapped Michael, 26, who, along with Sarah, 23, and Victoria, 16, is contesting Sellers' will, which leaves...
...long trial caps the orchestrated purge of China's once powerful, Mao-inspired radical faction. The trial was, in fact, largely an act of vengeance by the officials currently in power, most of whom had been purged during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. Fittingly enough, the widows of several of the top leaders who did not survive the violence of that upheaval were in the audience for Sunday's proceedings. Among them was Wang Guangmei, widow of onetime Head of State Liu Shaoqi. Wang triumphantly declared the trial a "victory for the people." In reality, it was mainly...
...Other People's Worlds opens, Tyte's meandering trail of deceit has taken him to the Gloucestershire town of Stone St. Martin, where he is engaged to Julia Ferndale, 47, widow of an army officer. The japonica is blooming, the folk politely buzz about Julia's young semicelebrity, and her mother, Mrs. Anstey, reads Dickens and feels vaguely uneasy about her future...