Word: widowing
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...union was not a success. The pair quarreled over her spending. Onassis took to calling his wife "the widow." After his son died in an air crash, he changed that to "the witch." Deeply superstitious, he blamed her for the loss that broke his heart...
Flanagan's main observer this time is Janice Nugent, a well-born Catholic widow. She falls in love with a scholar on the run from the British who is an aide to the implacable revolutionary Michael Collins. It is a period of shaky nerves in great houses, of informers, of men in overcoats lurking about with revolvers, of Dublin, as ever, "a notorious whispering gallery of rumor, malice, speculation, spiced always and made palatable, such was the claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly...
With his legs gone, Puller in an instant became half a man. It seemed virtually certain that he would leave his pregnant wife a widow. The triage experts in Danang did their heroic part, however, as, later, did the surgeons, corpsmen and therapists at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital...
...Premier Homme (The First Man). Near the scene of the fatal accident, investigators found Camus's mud-stained, accordion-style black briefcase; among its contents were 144 handwritten manuscript pages containing about 80,000 words -- a first version of the first part of his intended work. Camus's widow Francine refused all entreaties to publish the unrevised fragment, but his daughter Catherine, now 48, who inherited her father's estate after her mother's death in 1979, decided that the manuscript would be made public eventually and that she might as well be the one to shepherd it into print...
...Menino, and police commissioner Paul Evans appeared at a community meeting to take the heat. "It is historic for a mayor and police commissioner to come out and say, 'I'm sorry,' " says Rodney Foxworth, co-chairman of a neighborhood council. The mayor has promised an inquiry, but Williams' widow is expected...