Word: widowing
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...next day, Roosevelt complained of "a terrific headache," pressed his hand to his forehead and then fell unconscious in his chair. Churchill cabled the President's widow his grief at the loss of "a dear and cherished friendship which was forged in the fire of war." Perhaps he also remembered not just the great battles won but the small exchanges: the time Roosevelt sent him a postage stamp postmarked on the cruiser Augusta the day Churchill had climbed aboard; the time Roosevelt jokingly sent him a newspaper clipping suggesting that Churchill's wife was descended from Mormons...
Edna Spaulding, played with wonderful strength and control by Sally Field, is a sheriff's wife who suddenly finds herself a widow when her husbands is shot by a drunken black youth. Edna, long accustomed to playing the deferential wife, must bow assume the responsibilities of keeping her family together in a decidedly masculine world of bank mortgages and cotton farming...
...these standards Places in the Heart is going to appear, at first glance, a bit out of time and place. In outline, the story is inescapably reminiscent of a sentimental silent film or of 19th century theatrical melodrama, telling as it does the simple tale of a plucky Texas widow attempting to save her farm from foreclosure and her family from being broken up should the old homestead go. Indeed, Edna Spalding, as luminously portrayed by Sally Field, is as good as she is brave: churchly, compassionate, guileless. Her sense of social responsibility is informed by unimpeachable instinct...
...knows nothing about art. Or Father William Doherty (Leonard Corman), the kind, elderly parishoner who is torn between molding his foster son (Mark Rogers) into a badly-needed Indian physician and allowing him to pursue a lucrative and prestigious position in cancer research. Or Marion Clay (Maryann Bergonzi), the widow of a wealthy artist who divides her time between lamenting a bygone past and "managing" an adolescent tennis star...