Word: widowing
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...teacher's widow, Pam Grunow, came to the sentencing hearing, carrying a quilt made by her husband's students. She told the judge, "Maybe tomorrow, another woman's husband, another little boy's daddy and another great teacher won't be sacrificed in an angry, crazy moment...
...success of the TV sitcom Julia in 1968 helped change the image of black Americans on television. I played a Vietnam War widow, a nurse, raising her child. Many were completely unaware of the black middle class, but I was raised in this community, and the Julias of this country were my family and friends. Some, both white and black, protested that we weren't portraying black poverty--"telling it like it is" (a phrase I came to detest). But other blacks told me, "We've never seen images of ourselves before." Actually, it's an image of another kind...
...that rationale was more satisfying before the news of this new pregnancy. "Why twice?" asks Bob's widow Joy MacKenzie. "What can God be thinking? Why not give somebody else this experience and let them do some growing...
...event of his death, as a replacement for Wallingford's. Sure enough, Otto accidentally shoots himself dead on the night of the 1998 Super Bowl, and his hand is flown to Boston where a brilliant surgeon transplants it to Wallingford's left forearm. With the hand comes the grieving widow, who has some interesting plans of her own for the lucky recipient...
...chose Martinez, whom he met in a Bible-study group at his aunt's Baptist church. Says Martinez: "I was perfect for him because I was politically naive." Roque started an ardent courtship and, say court documents, in his secret communiques to Havana referred to Martinez as "the Merry Widow...