Word: widowing
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Louise Malone, 58, a fragile-looking widow who works as an oil company accountant, and whose hair turned white after her daughter got a bean caught in her windpipe and almost choked some 20 years...
...China's peripatetic Premier Chou Enlai. As Chou's road show pulled into Colombo last week, it was clear that he had taken advance precautions to ease his confrontation with the formidable first lady. Included in his entourage for the first time was Soong Ching-ling, widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of modern China, and sister of Mme. Chiang Kaishek. A rheumatic lady of 74, Soong Ching-ling fell out with her family during China's civil war, stayed on the mainland after the Communist takeover, won a Stalin Peace Prize in 1951, now lives...
After the kidnap-slaying of a rich widow's young son, police chase the two killers to the wet end of a jetty in the harbor at Cannes. Suddenly, three men step forth, each claiming that he is an innocent bystander and the other two the culprits. All their alibis seem as dubious as their morals...
...lunchtime sipping his glass of Guinness, he becomes aware of a "new sensation of threat, nagging him at last into an awareness of his own acute unhappiness." He looks in a.shop window on the way home and sees the reflection of an old man. In terror, he marries a widow and commences his life...
...decade on the fringes of Parisian society, and was being supported by various well-heeled lovers-the most favored of whom was Barras. Bonaparte, at 26, was six years younger than Josephine, but he had a hankering for older women; he had already proposed to an unwilling widow nearly twice his age. "Madame de Beauharnais," he recalled on St. Helena, "was the first woman who gave me a sense of security." He proposed almost immediately. After "inner struggles and long reluctance," Josephine accepted. "You will ask me if I love him," she wrote a friend. "Well...