Word: widowing
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...Britain's Guardian described it. The paper was referring to the Bandaranaike clan of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), who have managed to turn government into something of a family affair. At the head of the Indian Ocean republic is Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister and widow of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, who held this post from 1956 until he was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Since Mrs. Bandaranaike was last elected in 1970, an imposing number of her relatives-both from her own family, the feudal Ratwatte clan, and her in-laws, the equally aristocratic Bandaranaikes-have assumed...
Drink a toast to Widow Clicquot...
...make the campaign easier, Hance and Hayes had the full backing of their families. Hance, who is a widow, had her three grown children working in the campaign. Hayes's family was likewise supportive, with her doctor husband contributing financially. Hayes nevertheless admits her son did not at first want her to run. "My son was just a Victorian male chauvinist teenager at the time," recounts Hayes. "Now he's proud that I tried...
...prize, named for A. Calvert Smith '14, former associate editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, originated in a fund set up by Calvert's widow in 1956. Since 1959 the fund has given sporadic awards of several hundred dollars to faculty members. A recent anonymous contribution to the Calvert fund has made possible the establishment of the $1000 prize, Bethell said...
...that the money could not be transferred until her husband was accounted for. If there was still no sign of him seven years after his disappearance, the SSA said, she could ask a court to declare him dead. Then she would be eligible to collect his checks and receive widow's benefits...