Word: widowered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm for the burial. "There was tears shed from every, eye," said his daughter Zola. "It was the most hurt crowd I ever saw." Three ministers invoked blessings and golden chrysanthemums were piled high on the grave. Then the kinfolk and the curious drifted away, leaving Widow Doric Webb and the five children alone in the ramshackle house on the wild, hard land...
Director Curtis Bernhardt (The Merry Widow) has done some inspired casting: Peter Ustinov plays the Prince of Wales and Robert Morley his potty papa. These two amiable monsters, as shapelessly alike as two corpulent snails, seem to be engaged in a contest to see who can stick his long-stemmed eyeballs farthest out of his head. Morley, as the monarch who "talks to trees [and] mixes paint with his feet," is the winner by a cornea...
Tozzer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Castle Tozzer, a daughter, Mrs. William Lincoln of Brookline, and five grandchildren...
Some doctors, citing Kuboyama's bad liver, apparently questioned whether radiation had been the cause of death. But the cause was officially announced as "radiation disease." U.S. Ambassador John Allison issued a prompt statement of "extreme sorrow" and presented the dead fisherman's widow with a check for 1,000,000 yen ($2,777). But twinges of anti-U.S. sentiment flickered across the islands; delegations of tuna fishermen marched up and down before Japan's Foreign Ministry demanding an immediate halt of U.S. H-bomb tests, and scores of protesting Japanese paraded on foot...
...first case. Actor Crawford runs into resistance from a torpedo's well-kept woman (Martha Hyer). "I don't like men staring at me before lunch," she bridles, but soon goes on to tell what it's like to be a lamster's widow. "I thought it would last forever, like one of them watches you don't have to wind. But we sure done a lot of windin'." For a while the extortionist plays in-and-out-the window with the hot-car ring, but the game soon ends with the Feds...