Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corrupt the church. But in tiny (pop. 220) Kyprianades, in the northern part of the sun-drenched Greek island of Corfu, Father John Costeletos, 45, kept silent. There was little need for him to talk: everyone in town knew that he and his affair with the 37-year-old Widow Theodora Pra had prompted all the other sermons in the first place. And so, one day, when his church bell rang for the congregation to gather, the people of Kyprianades wondered whether Father John might at last be ready to make public confession...
...shares of I.D.S. voting stock (thus giving Alleghany 48% control), in return for a like amount of nonvoting stock. In addition, the defendants will pay $3,000,000 in cash to Alleghany to settle the claim. Chairman Kirby will fork over $1,250,000; Bob Young's widow, Anita O'Keeffe Young, will pay another $1,050,000; and the remaining $700,000 will come from the Murchison interests...
Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated by Vladimir Kean and Franz Kuhn. A wry, readable 16th century Chinese tale about a virtuous widow and the Boccaccian crew of thieves, pimps and "Powder-faces" who surround...