Word: widowing
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...Widow Shah Jan sits in an icy room with mud walls in a snowfield on the edge of Kabul. She wipes her tears with the edge of her grimy sweater as she recalls the day in August 1999 when the Taliban set fire to her home in the vineyards of the Shomali Plain and kidnapped her best friend, Nafiza. "The Taliban burst in with their guns and torches," says Shah Jan. "None of us even had time to put on our veils...
...fades," a mental-health expert told the videoconference. "People tend to say, 'O.K., that's enough. Drop it.'" Which is why any feelings of rivalry during the session were trumped by a desire to soothe. The people who begrudge the money? "They are definitely in the minority," said Oklahoma widow Diane Leonard...
...Atlanta, then started winding toward Salt Lake, the ground began to warm. The flame will travel 13,500 miles by dogsled and wheelchair and snowshoe and tennis shoe and tugboat. Rudy Giuliani carried it, exempted from the organizing committee's rule against elected officials as torchbearers. Lyz Glick, widow of Jeremy, a hero of Flight 93, carried it, along with 11,498 others, through frigid streets lined with cheering people--and that was just for the torch...
...alive. The expedition cost $100,000,000 and failed to get Villa, though it broke his power. After his final defeat, he promised to settle down and be good, if it were made worth his while. It was... [He] is mourned by five ladies, each claiming to be his widow. This does not include Senora Luz Corral de Villa, his lawful wife, who is living in the United States...
...Democratic and Labour Party was led by John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize winner, singer of songs with President Clinton, darling of the world's press since he staked out a nonviolent Irish nationalism at the start of the Troubles. Durkan, the youngest of seven children raised on a police widow's pension, was Hume's detail man for two decades, turning the great leader's big but fuzzy visions into political reality. His skill at listening and bridging divides won him respect, and when Hume finally stepped down, Durkan ran unopposed (he joked that he was the "heir abhorrent"). Perversely...