Word: widowing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...widow of the heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune and wife of presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., is sharing some of her wealth with two of Harvard’s top professors...
...crowd you would expect when that state's first-in-the-nation presidential contest is weeks away rather than a year. He has the most fully developed political network in the early-primary states (including a leg up on everyone else in neighboring New Hampshire). His marriage to Heinz, widow of Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, gives him the option of tapping substantial financial assets. And he has assembled the strongest and toughest team of campaign operatives, including Michael Whouley, who ran Al Gore's impressive ground operation...
...where a story is told "of cruelty, of official stupidity. The whole room was laughing ... I said to the man next to me, 'Why are you laughing? That's a terrible story.' 'That is why we are laughing,' he said." "Oh, the people are suffering," says Namatai, a young widow with a two-year-old daughter. She counts herself blessed; she has a job - as a guard at a government building - when 70% of the work force doesn't. But she earns just $20 a month. "How can I afford bus fare, the rent of my house, mealie meal...
...Earl Carroll's Vanities" whose stage name was Flo Allen. But his true love was his second wife, Dolly Haas. Dorothy Louise Clara Haas was born, in 1910, in Hamburg to a German mother and an English bookseller father. As a teenager she appeared in "The Mikado," "The Merry Widow," Wedekind's "Franziska" and a Max Reinhardt spectacle. In theater or cabaret, the redheaded "flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets Ahead"). From 1930 to '35 she played the worldly waif...
...when they or their family members enjoyed Act I of the musical romance Nord-Ost (North-East), then found themselves immersed in a real-life tableau that unfolded in horror. "My late husband always joked that musicians and prostitutes will be safe under any regime," says Valentina Khramtsova, widow of Fyodor Khramtsov, a trumpet player in the show's orchestra. "Little did he know that this regime would kill the musicians, too." The family was seeking $1 million in damages, Khramtsova said, "to make the officials remember that their office is a job, not a privilege, to ensure that nothing...