Word: widowered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...husband's assassination on a Managua street in 1978, widely pinned on Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ignited the popular outrage that a year later brought the Sandinistas to power. Exploiting Violeta's symbolic value as the widow of a martyr, the victorious rebels persuaded her to join a coalition junta. She accepted but soon fell out with Ortega and his fellow Marxists. Chamorro left the government in 1980 and became publisher of La Prensa. The job automatically made her the most prominent and vociferous enemy of the Sandinistas in the country...
When the hybrid National Opposition Union realized last year that to challenge Ortega it needed star quality on its presidential ticket, the magic Chamorro name was again decisive. Wary of wading back into politics, the silver-haired widow at first demurred, but she accepted the nomination at the urging of her husband's spirit, with whom she says she communes regularly...
Empathy may be her greatest virtue as President. Nicaraguans have been killing one another in revolution and civil war for more than a decade. Who knows these divisions better than Dona Violeta? She is the widow of a man murdered for his political beliefs, and a mother reviled as a traitor by two of her children, who are committed to the revolution. Yet never have her Sandinista son and daughter been unwelcome in her home. That kind of tolerance ; is hard for an embittered nation to summon up. It should help to have an exemplar who has experienced anguish firsthand...
...time and exertion required to refloat an economy that has run aground. And Chamorro will not perform without error. She considers her mission divine but suffers from high-handedness and an aversion to criticism, no matter how well intentioned. Irritated by endless comparisons with Philippine President Corazon Aquino, another widow of a national hero, she has developed a response both disarming and revealing: "I would rather be thought of as a Latin Margaret Thatcher...
Among those who have gained admission to the upper crust's official ranks are the offspring of the late Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer-son of an illegitimate member of the Earl of Berkeley's family. Said his widow, Lady Elizabeth: "My only regret is that my husband did not live...