Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard China expert said yesterday he believes the recent dispute between Chiang Ching, Mao Tse Tung's widow, and the Politburo, the elite of the Central Committee, centered on control of the late chairman's security force and the right to edit his works...
...United Press International reported last night that the New China News Agency in Peking said Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ching and "key radical elements" had been "liquidated." UPI report stated that it was unclear whether the China report meant the radicals had been killed...
Isolated Actions. Both groups staged damaging raids-as did right-wing terrorists-against the inept regime of Perón's widow and successor, Isabel, 45. When Videla led an army coup that deposed Mrs. Perón (she remains under luxurious house arrest in the lake district), he promised that the government would exercise a "monopoly of force." In July the army cornered and killed ERP Leader Mario Santucho and two of his top aides. Last month government forces trapped the national political secretariat of the Montoneros; five of them were shot to death, and four others captured...
...tend to follow a certain succession. The first wife gets to bear the babies. The next wife or two come in on the money and the fame. The poor last wife is left to serve as practical nurse to the Great Man's aches and pains and, as widow, play keeper to his flame...
Diana Trilling called it censorship; Lillian Hellman called it "unpleasant business." But to some, last week's go around had the look of a literary row par excellence. The clawing began when Essayist Trilling, 71, widow of Critic Lionel Trilling, disclosed that Little, Brown & Co. had canceled her book contract. The reason, said a representative of the publisher, was "unpleasantly personal attacks" on Playwright Hellman, 69, a longtime Little, Brown writer and author of the current bestseller Scoundrel Time. Hellman had stood firm in the face of a congressional inquisition during the Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book...