Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...received this check three months ago, I'd probably have banked it," says Chicago Widow Eulaee Birchmeir. Instead she will use her $171.50 rebate to buy opera and symphony tickets and pay off a credit-card bill...
...YEARS since Ben Shahn's widow donated 2000 of her late husband's photographs to the Fogg Art Museum, photography at the Fogg has risen from the status of stepchild to full fledged member of the illustrious family of "fine arts." Even now, one of the Fogg's best-kept secrets is its small but distinguished collection of 20th-century photographs, and rarely is a photography show celebrated with a black-tie opening or an expensive catalogue as was the current Ben Franklin exhibit. Despite the museum's limited budget and space, Contemporary Photographs V is the fifth...
They buried Agnes McAnoy, 62, widow and mother of three, in Belfast last week. And Molly McAleavy, 57, mother of eleven. And Marie Bennett, 42, mother of seven. And Arthur Penn, 33, father of three. And Elizabeth Carson, 64, whose husband Willy lost an arm. Pathetic lines of mourners wept after the requiem at the Catholic Church of St. Matthew, half a mile from where the attackers had tossed a bomb into the crowded Strand bar in East Belfast...
...Among those he shunted aside was the head of Kuomintang propaganda, a firebrand named Mao Tse-tung. In the midst of these heady successes, Chiang took a portentous step in his personal life, marrying Soong Meiling, a delicately beautiful, Wellesley-educated younger sister of Sun Yat-sen's widow. In doing so he put aside his first wife, the mother of his son and heir, Taiwan's current Premier Chiang Ching-kuo; he became a convert to Christianity before the wedding...
...sent to a U.S. Marine base near Chingwangtao for shipment to safekeeping in the U.S. Before the Marines were able to leave, the Japanese arrived. In the confusion, the bones were lost. Or were they stolen? Over the years only one informant, a woman who said she was the widow of one of the Marines, claimed to have the bones in her possession. In 1972 she agreed to meet Janus and Shapiro on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, produced a photograph of what looked like the bones and offered to sell them...