Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offices in the capital. A poster signed by Qiu Shui, a writer for the radical underground journal Tansuo (Exploration), appeared on Peking's "Democracy Wall," denouncing Hua for "interference" with China's judicial procedures. The poster attacked Hua's statement that Mao Tse-tung's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) and the other members of the Gang of Four would not be sentenced to death when they go on trial, possibly next year. Wrote Qiu: "The sentencing of the Gang of Four should be based on the court's decision alone...
...Cheever's best stories are not merely chronicles of upper-middle-class life, but Kafkaesque tragedies about what happens when a rigorously ordered world starts to go mad. Instead of dramatizing tales from the two major Cheever story collections, The Enormous Radio and The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, PBS has selected trifles from The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. These are then stretched out to fill an hour each...
...university then proposed splitting the library into two parts-a Harvard research collection and a museum and tourist center elsewhere. Meanwhile, UMass offered the scenic harbor site. One drawback: it had once been used as a garbage dump. There was talk as well of more rural settings. But Widow Jacqueline argued that Jack was a man of the city, not the country, and that the library should be near the sea, which he loved. Finally, Ted Kennedy announced to a meeting of the library's board: "If Jackie wants her husband's presidential library in Dorchester, it will...
...Republic," the Cultural Revolution "plunged our country into divisiveness and chaos abhorred by the people, into blood baths and terror." The scapegoats explicitly singled out were the late Lin Biao (Lin Piao), once Mao's chosen successor, and Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing), Mao's widow and ringleader of the "Gang of Four." Still, Ye was clearly pointing at Mao when he stated that "leaders are not gods; they are not infallible and therefore should not be deified...
...Mamie Eisenhower, 82, widow of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, after suffering a stroke in her Gettysburg, Pa., home and being rushed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Frail and bedridden for several months, the former First Lady is reported to have "some loss of function" in her right side and difficulty forming sentences...