Word: widowing
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...Jacobs' ends, the ex-slave's work really began. Jacobs worked with black refugees from the Civil War and founded a school for poor black children. She never married and was never financially comfortable. In 1885, when she was in her 70s, she heard that her former owner's widow was living nearby and was in dire straits. Jacobs went over and cooked her dinner...
...People's Daily website. Chinese have seen this type of intrigue before. A Beijing vice mayor, Wang Baosen, committed suicide during a 1995 scandal that brought down a Politburo member and might have gone higher if Wang had lived. Likewise, Zhu's case will remain forever murky. To his widow, however, there is no doubt that he died at somebody else's hands. "My rage," says Fan, "is etched in my bones...
...Marquis de Sade--to mental patients who exhibited an "association of lust and cruelty." Less famously, Krafft-Ebing named masochism after the bawdy novels of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose most famous work, Venus in Furs (1870), describes the willing enslavement of a dreamy man by a beautiful widow...
Because men are often outnumbered in senior homes, they may be subjected to a lot of attention. Nancy, 83, a very proper widow who had just arrived at an upstate New York senior residence, recalls casually accepting a ride one fall afternoon from a fellow resident, a lively gent who wanted to show her the countryside. The next evening at cocktail hour, Nancy was taken aside and told in no uncertain terms by another widow that the man was already taken. "I thought I was back in a high school locker room," recalls Nancy, astonished by the woman's aggressiveness...
...blond beauty once rankled Marilyn Monroe (before letting Lange appear alongside her in Bus Stop, Monroe demanded that Lange's hair be dyed brown) and won her parts in such 1950s films as The Young Lions. But she was better known for her matronly, Emmy-winning role as a widow living in a haunted seaside home in TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...