Word: widowered
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...Democrats will be calling on the widow. Eager to impress on Missouri voters that a vote for a dead man - Missouri governor Mel Carnahan, who was killed last week in a plane crash - is not a wasted one, interim governor Roger Wilson will ask Carnahan's widow, Jean Carnahan, to stand as her late husband's replacement for a two-year Senate term. If he wins...
...Palestinian uprising against Israel is aimed not at the government of Yitzhak Shamir or Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud leaders known for their hard line, but against Ehud Barak, the most dovish Israeli Prime Minister the Middle East has ever known. Indeed, Barak has gone so far that Yitzhak Rabin's widow said he'd be "turning in his grave" if he could see what concessions Barak had offered...
Marriage is not in my head, for one single reason: I don't want to leave behind a widow and orphans. We have enough Palestinian widows and orphans. I want to marry when I am sure that my wife and my children will be able to live a comfortable life...
...that the choices are few. The state's leading member of Congress, House minority leader Richard Gephardt, doesn't want the job. Attorney General Jay Nixon and former Senator Thomas Eagleton probably can't beat Ashcroft. The only Democrat with a shot at doing that would be Carnahan's widow, Jean. But since she also lost a son, Roger, in the crash - an aide to the Governor, Chris Sifford, also died - friends say it will be hard to muster the strength. William Clay Jr., a leading state Democrat, advises his party to "tailor a message in memory of Mel: 'Come...
...central figures in the author?s world. Although Deanna and Lusa never meet, they share subterranean female experiences. Both recognize that men are attracted to them, unknowingly, because of pheromones; both ovulate in synch with the full moon. On a steamy, "oversexed" Fourth of July evening, Lusa feels her widow's grief subsiding as her male in-laws play with fireworks: "We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying to have sex with...