Word: widower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Vietnam's national police, during the second day of the 1968 Tet offensive in Saigon altered U.S. public opinion about what was at stake in the war as much as any other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. For a decade after the war, she and her three children were homeless. The Vietnamese government provided shelter only after a Japanese TV crew found her living in a field...
...kind of evidence that would be accepted by the New England Journal of Medicine, but it struck a nerve. Viewers tuned in to hear David Reynard, the Florida widower, tell the story of his wife's death to Larry King, Bryant Gumbel, Faith Daniels and dozens of radio talk-show hosts. Sally Atwater, the widow of late Republican political guru Lee Atwater, got half a dozen calls from reporters asking whether her husband's brain tumor was linked to his constant cellular-phone use (she could not say). "It seems like yet another technology that...
...appearance at Howard University Monday,Clinton joined a program in remembrance of theslain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.,including King's Widow, Coretta Scott King, andhis son, Martin Luther King...
...Barry Bonds, got the biggest ones: $43.75 million for six years in San Francisco. Hockey's best, Mario Lemieux, got almost as much ($42 million, seven years) to stay in Pittsburgh. Baseball owners cried poverty -- and demanded to reopen their contract with the players' union -- but, like a randy widow, couldn't help throwing money at those big, handsome athletes. Even the barons of the N.F.L. can no longer look smugly upon the agitation of lesser moguls; last week they acceded to the players' suit for free agency. Serves 'em right: let the bidding frenzy spread like...
...third trial of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, 72, in the assassination of Evers on June 12, 1963. Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 by all-white juries, which deadlocked. Beckwith's wife Thelma wept at the news of the new trial. So did Evers' widow Myrlie...