Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drink a toast to Widow Clicquot...
...make the campaign easier, Hance and Hayes had the full backing of their families. Hance, who is a widow, had her three grown children working in the campaign. Hayes's family was likewise supportive, with her doctor husband contributing financially. Hayes nevertheless admits her son did not at first want her to run. "My son was just a Victorian male chauvinist teenager at the time," recounts Hayes. "Now he's proud that I tried...
...prize, named for A. Calvert Smith '14, former associate editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, originated in a fund set up by Calvert's widow in 1956. Since 1959 the fund has given sporadic awards of several hundred dollars to faculty members. A recent anonymous contribution to the Calvert fund has made possible the establishment of the $1000 prize, Bethell said...
Most of the refugees were Portuguese dirt farmers who went to Africa looking for a better life than the miserable existence offered by the rocky slopes of northern Portugal. Few got rich. About 10% are black or of mixed blood. Last week Maria da Silva Caldeira, 48, a widow who had been a washerwoman in Angola, sat disconsolately in a hangar surrounded by her ten children. "I did not have an easy time in Angola, but this is worse," she said. "They have spoiled our lives...
...that the money could not be transferred until her husband was accounted for. If there was still no sign of him seven years after his disappearance, the SSA said, she could ask a court to declare him dead. Then she would be eligible to collect his checks and receive widow's benefits...