Word: widowing
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...again in counterpoint with the Book Depository and the shots, and riderless Black Jack fighting the bridle, and the widow, the little boy saluting, and the long mahogany box in the Rotunda-the protagonist and the irretrievable mystery of the piece. The death of John F. Kennedy became a participatory American tragedy, a drama both global and intensely intimate...
...White House last week greeted one another boisterously. But the mood was much more restrained and solemn when President Reagan appeared to sign a bill making the third Monday in January a national holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Among those present were King's widow Coretta, 56, and their four children: Yolanda, 27, a New York City actress; Martin III, 25, a lobbyist in Washington who worked for passage of the King holiday; Dexter, 22, a corrections officer in Atlanta, and Bemice, 20, a junior at Atlanta's Spelman College. Said their mother, after...
...widow of slain Filipino senator Benigno S. Aquino came to Cambridge yesterday to attend a memorial service for her husband organized by former colleagues from Harvard and MIT, where Aquino held fellowships...
...fitted the description of the tall, lean robbers in only one way: he was black. Despite the reluctance of citizens to second-guess the police, who continued to insist that Bowden was a criminal, an all-white jury found the killing to be a "wrongful death," and awarded his widow Patricia a judgment, still unpaid, that with interest exceeds...
...Donnell's thoughtful narrative transcends its arena. The author, 31, grew up in a street-tough Irish Catholic society that had bred legions of police; he had known one of the officers in the case since boyhood. His father, a prominent Boston attorney who took on the widow's case, is himself a former policeman. Thus the book depicts the racial consciousness and social mores of big-city police with fairness, even compassion. That is especially striking because a chilling incident brought the author aboard as an investigator: soon after his father took the case...