Word: widowed
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...could one be a truly Orthodox Jew, one who loves the Torah and its Divine Author and His creations, and disregard the words of our teacher Maimonides: "There is no joy which is greater or more wondrous than gladdening the hearts of the poor, the orphan, the widow, and the stranger, for the one who gladdens the hearts of these unfortunate people is compared to God, as it is said [of God]: [He acts] to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones'" (Maimonides, "Laws of Megillah," 2:17, quoting Isaiah...
Zimmerman's widow, Bona B. Zimmerman, said her husband's devotion to the players helped her understand his enthusiasm for Harvard athletics...
...gave Byron De La Beckwith every benefit of the doubt in his 1964 trials for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Two hung juries and a quarter- century later, a Jackson prosecutor (Alec Baldwin, who's good in a tough role) reopens the case, goaded by Evers' widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg). He has a chance: this time the gabby, unrepentant Beckwith (James Woods) is facing a jury that is largely black...
...thus torpedoing its worth on the international art market. Collector Jacques Walter auctioned it off to banker Jean-Marc Vernes for $11 million in 1992; he then sued the French government for "spoliating" its value, and, incredibly, Walter won $29 million in compensation. After Vernes died last spring, his widow put the picture up for sale...
...effort by citizens of the last remaining wealthy Miami neighborhoods such as Coconut Grove to separate themselves from the city's impoverished majority. But organizers claim they have support from all over town, including poor people suffering under the city's high tax burden and inadequate services. "One widow told me she's afraid the city will start asking her to empty her garbage cans into the trucks," says Courtelis...