Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what do we blame for Buford Furrow? In less than two days, we?ve learned an awful lot unsavory about him. He had connections to white supremacist groups -- Aryan Nations, the Order and Christian Identity ?- and was said to have once lived with Debbie Mathews, widow of the Order?s founder (they met at an Aryan Nations gathering). And he has been a voluntary prisoner before; last November, Furrow tried to commit himself to a psychiatric hospital in a Seattle suburb, but couldn?t go through with it; he wound up pulling a knife on staffers. Also that...
...hard to be the son of J.F.K., imagine how hard it is to be the daughter of the valiant widow. Caroline had some of the remote, mysterious quality of her mother. When I met her for the first time, I expected to hear that whisper, see a will-o'-the-wisp, but found instead someone with a firm voice, incredibly self-possessed and with a day-to-dayness about her. You could picture that she could make her way in Manhattan, hailing taxis and going to the movies and taking her children for ice cream in Central Park without causing...
Kubrick's widow Christiane remembers his asking her to read the book as far back as 1968, when he was looking for something to follow 2001. She also remembers not caring greatly for it at the time, probably because she had become "allergic to psychiatric conversations." But Kubrick, she recalls, took the passion of their arguments about the "dream story" as evidence that material so stirring must be worth doing. In any case, using Jay Cocks, then a young film reporter for TIME, as a front, on the grounds that Cocks might acquire rights to the book more cheaply than...
...They came to kill,"said Sadir Gashi as he comforted his cousin Gentiana and her grieving mother Mexhide. The widow's eyes were red with weeping as she showed us the photographic remnants of a happy marriage. "I will always be happy to have these good images in my mind," she said softly, running her hand over Gentiana's hair, "and not his body in that horrible condition." She stopped a moment, then smiled sadly. "I hardly manage to sleep, and when I do, I dream of him. But not of what happened--of the good days we had together...
...Sonia Gandhi, Widow of Rajiv Gandhi and Candidate for Prime Minister Inheritor, White Knight, Healer...