Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Methodist ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice, expressed concern about the company's labor policies. Old civil rights activists banded together as Southerners for Economic Justice joined the fray. Said Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., to Stevens Chairman James D. Finley: "I come before you as an American intolerant of injustice...
...sale at Christie's in London this week are five treasured paintings belonging to Lady Spencer-Churchill, 91. Although her personal assets are reckoned at over $170,000, Winston Churchill's widow Clementine, like most Britons, is a victim of inflation. When word got out that she was selling family heirlooms and that she was getting no aid from the state beyond a $26-a-week old-age pension, the response was outrage. Declared the Daily Mail: "When Marlborough, Churchill's illustrious ancestor, beat off England's enemies, the nation gave him Blenheim Palace...
...days, $208,333 was collected from those who remembered. Said a 31-year-old engineer: "It is our way of saying 'Thank you' for what you have done for us." Germany's most famous boxer, former Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, now 71, donated $400. A war widow of 75 added: "We Berliners haven't forgotten the help you Americans gave...
...hotels. Only fragments ever saw print, but their existence has lingered in the air as a gossipy tidbit. Now, a federal judge has ordered the tapes held under seal for 50 years, not to be disclosed unless under court order. Presumably this is meant to spare King's widow, Coretta, any further embarrassment. A Department of Justice investigation concluded that the tapes were "very probably" illegally obtained; they are thus as much a blot on Hoover's memory as on King's. Why aren't they simply destroyed? Attorney General Griffin Bell ought...
...four wives but contracted with a bright, healthy Irish immigrant girl to bear his child. The result is Stephen Henley, raised in an expensive, loveless manner. Instead of following Edward's sybaritic path, Stephen becomes a Unitarian minister and a classics scholar. He marries Lucy Roundtree Evans, a widow who has spent her sexual pas sion on her first husband...