Word: widowing
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...prosecutors asked that he be detained. On Dec. 3, 1998, police there seized seven tons of cocaine in Cartagena. Prosecutors claim $350,000 of Tafur's money was being used for the shipment. But Tafur has bank records that show the $350,000 in question was part of a widow's pension the Colombian Congress had awarded to his mother. Tafur's father, a legislator who helped draft the extradition treaty, was assassinated by narco-traffickers...
...week their normally phlegmatic father PRINCE CHARLES demonstrated in a brief but very public moment his appreciation for the reggae beat. Visiting Jamaica, the man who would be King became the toast of Kingston as he toured the blighted neighborhood of Trench Town and met with Bob Marley's widow Rita. The prince was anointed with a crown of dreadlocks fastened to a Rastafarian cap, which he donned briefly, and backward, before doffing it because of the heat. Rita Marley said had her husband been there, he would have "burn[ed] a spliff--a big, big spliff...
EXECUTED. BETTY LOU BEETS, 62, a.k.a. "the Black Widow," convicted of murdering her fifth husband and indicted but never tried for murdering her fourth husband; by lethal injection; in Huntsville, Texas. Beets, who claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse, was the fourth woman put to death in the U.S. since 1976, when the Supreme Court allowed executions to resume...
...down a sidewalk, hurdling a rolled-up carpet carried by two workmen and flopping onto the pavement, Mary Tyler Moore would have been better off leaving the job to professionals. A stuntwoman was supposed to handle the scene, in which Moore's Mary Richards--now a 60-year-old widow--chases in high heels after a stray dog, but Moore decided to try the pratfall herself. "I became airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says, and at one of those points, her right wrist, she broke two tiny bones: a metacarpal and the capitatum. The latter injury, quips...
DIED. JEAN MACARTHUR, 101, widow of General Douglas MacArthur, who called her "my constant friend, sweetheart and devoted supporter"; in New York City. A witness to history, she shadowed her famous husband during war and peace, most notably at his side on a PT boat, dodging Japanese planes and destroyers, when he was ordered out of the Philippines...