Word: widowing
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...house, and each day Mother Erma would get up at 5 a.m., fix breakfast for her daughter, see that she was dressed for school, and then leave in time to work the 7 a.m. shift at the Leland Electric factory. An adult observer would have seen a spunky young widow doing her best...
...several short, sad stories that have the quality of O. Henry's sentimental tales. One tells of a mother who died of cancer, leaving each of three sons a letter that began, "I always loved you best . . ." Among the most effective is the story of an old Jewish widow who chats happily every night with her dead husband Seymour. Her grown children think she is batty and put her in a home. She does not care; she gets through to her husband there too, and in fact meets another old woman, who says cheerfully that, sure, her own dead...
...journalist can be lied to, but Woodward seems to have taken no undue liberties with his sources--there were many, and many of them big time--and it appears that he has doublechecked whenever possible. The complaints of Belushi's widow. Judy, that the author misrepresents her husband, just don't hold any water. It was she who turned Woodward on to the story, and she was subsequently interviewed more than 20 times for the book...
...national or international significance. The first Milestones section, appearing in the March 3, 1923, issue, listed seven deaths. Among them: Thomas Shaw, the last survivor of the 1854 charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War; Mary Logan, who conceived the idea of Memorial Day; and an Indian widow who committed suttee on the funeral pyre of her husband...
...later, as the widow of Juan Perón prepared to return to Spain, where she has lived in exile since her ouster by a military junta in 1976, a bomb was found aboard the plane. Quickly transferring to another aircraft, she told well-wishers, "Nobody dies five minutes before one's time...