Word: widowed
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Flanagan's main observer this time is Janice Nugent, a well-born Catholic widow. She falls in love with a scholar on the run from the British who is an aide to the implacable revolutionary Michael Collins. It is a period of shaky nerves in great houses, of informers, of men in overcoats lurking about with revolvers, of Dublin, as ever, "a notorious whispering gallery of rumor, malice, speculation, spiced always and made palatable, such was the claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly...
...Premier Homme (The First Man). Near the scene of the fatal accident, investigators found Camus's mud-stained, accordion-style black briefcase; among its contents were 144 handwritten manuscript pages containing about 80,000 words -- a first version of the first part of his intended work. Camus's widow Francine refused all entreaties to publish the unrevised fragment, but his daughter Catherine, now 48, who inherited her father's estate after her mother's death in 1979, decided that the manuscript would be made public eventually and that she might as well be the one to shepherd it into print...
...dozen art forms and won plaudits in several -- in 1981, for example, she shared a Grammy with John Lennon for their album Double Fantasy, and in 1989 the Whitney Museum mounted a retrospective of her conceptual art -- her creative endeavors are overshadowed by her status as Lennon's widow. Ono seems reconciled to that reality. Indeed, she embraces it in New York Rock, an off-Broadway musical about coming to terms with the death of a loved...
...Menino, and police commissioner Paul Evans appeared at a community meeting to take the heat. "It is historic for a mayor and police commissioner to come out and say, 'I'm sorry,' " says Rodney Foxworth, co-chairman of a neighborhood council. The mayor has promised an inquiry, but Williams' widow is expected...
...details remain of Marie Sullivan's life.She was headstrong, a devout Catholic, a widow,Irish by birth and the youngest of three siblings.She lived in Harvard Square, and now resides ingrave 112, range 72, of the Cambridge Cemeterywelfare lot. She could have been almost anyone,but her strength of character set her apart inlife and afterword, friends said. "I think whatwas unique about Marie was that she was notbitter...She was a genuinely warm, caring person,"Fels said. "She touched people...