Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Verge of Collapse. Life within the surrounded capital sputtered on. A few street markets were still operating, and the city's electricity and water systems were working irregularly. Occasionally a widow could be seen traveling by pedicab to recover the body of her husband. Every morning, foreign visitors awoke to a bright blue sky and closed the shutters of their hotel rooms in the hope of deflecting shrapnel...
...where he showers his friends with "yum-yum," his favorite word for caviar, champagne and diamonds. His wooing techniques are quaint. Recently, Zahedi startled a blonde with a chorus of "kitchy-kitchy-koos" over the dinner table. And Columnist Maxine Cheshire reported a scene straight out of The Merry Widow. As Cristina Ford was leaving a Washington party, Zahedi cupped her hands, splashed them with champagne and then kissed each drop away...
...residences in several countries, his own private island of Skorpios in the Ionian Sea, and probably the world's most formidable private yacht, the 325-ft. Christina. Above and beyond that, he is the husband of the world's most publicized beauty-Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 45, widow of the assassinated 35th President...
Critics of the University's handling of the proposed W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research got organized this week, kicking off a black history week with the presentation of student recommendations for the structure of the institute and a consortium of Afro-American speakers, led by the widow of W.E.B. DuBois...
...have spent most of his energy on a few grand set pieces. The big party scene in Godfather I, when Vito's daughter is married, set the precedent for this emphasis and Coppola has created several new ones--Michael's son's first communion, the funeral of Vito's widow, Michael's appearance before a congressional committee, and, most bizarre of all, a long cloak, dagger and revolution sequence in pre-Castro Cuba...