Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to buy four novels and two poems that had long been banned; five other proscribed works have been announced for future publication. The return to grace of these forbidden works is part of the continuing campaign against the Gang of Four, headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing. At a Peking literary forum two weeks ago, 20 authors-including some whose works have been newly rehabilitated-attacked the Gang for "wantonly disrupting the creation of literary works...
...risk is seizures of mirth that render the reader helpless. Price's pen and punch line are, as always, off the wall: "My mother doesn't even bother to come to the games," complains one halfback as he watches an old lady buck the line. Explains a widow to friends: "He didn't really die of anything. He was a hypochondriac." Nonsense. He probably died of laughter looking at Price's lunatic -fringework...
...Barbara Jordan, Texas Congresswoman and keynote speaker, after a glowing introduction by Lyndon Johnson's widow: "Thank you, all of you, and thank you, Lady Bird Johnson, for an introduction of which I am worthy...
...student section of Exarheia, youthful, bearded PASOK workers joyfully embraced as they heard the news about notable new Deputies who had won election: Actress Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), comfortably elected-to a seat representing the port of Piraeus-after an unsuccessful try in 1974; and Lady Amalia Fleming, widow of penicillin's discoverer, a bacteriologist and a political prisoner under the junta...
...device worked so well that Cataldo formed his own company in Burbank, Calif., Microlert Systems International, and has sold or leased more than a thousand of the electronic lifesavers. Says Marie Franckum, a 70-year-old widow from Desert Hot Springs, Calif.: "About three weeks after having it installed I had a severe heart attack. I used it to call my doctor and an ambulance. It saved my life...