Word: widowing
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...Running Man. The funeral service is over. The pretty young widow (Lee Remick) stares at her desolate parlor. All at once she buries her face in her hands and gives way to gentle sobs. The last of the mourners leaves. As the door slams, she lifts her face out of her hands, and the audience sees that the pretty young widow is not sobbing at all-she is laughing...
...Widows of U.S. Senators sometimes make appealing Senators themselves: Oregon's Maurine Neuberger was appointed to fill out her husband Richard's term in 1960, went on to win another six years of her own. But the Senate's newest widow quickly put an end to any such speculation. Paris-trained Nancy Kefauver, 52, has always preferred painting to politics, and her whistle-stopping smiles were only surface-deep during the quarter century in which Estes Kefauver held first a House, then a Senate seat from Tennessee. She will remain in Washington, painting portraits on commission...
...M.G.H. and Brigham doctors were not discouraged. The attempt to save Bingel, helped by a widow's understanding, had been a noteworthy feat of medical and surgical cooperation. It failed, said Dr. Moore, "because all transplant patients face the problem of the organ's getting used to its new host-the host and the liver have to learn to live together." Renewed attempts to teach them to live together were certain to be made soon. Even as Joseph Bingel died, a gathering of transplant experts convened in Washington to figure out improved methods of increasing those chances...
...rooting for the reporter. The doings and undoings, anyway, all appear to be good clean smoking-room fun. Then, it suddenly becomes apparent that in the hero's blithe pursuit of what appears to be fair game lurks the seed of the same violence that brought the young widow to death on the cold basement floor. The frustrated reporter finds himself crouched in the dark on a fire escape outside the salesgirl's window, titillated by notions of breaking and entering...
...moment the Corporation designated Elmwood as the residence of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and promised to spare no expense in restoring the house to its original elegance. Certainly, there was much to restore. Elmwood's owner until 1962 had been Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter, widow of a Harvard professor of Fine Arts and a strong-willed woman who brooked no meddling with her crumbling mansion. Shunning modern comforts, she lived by 19th Century candlelight that masked the rotting timbers in shadow and made her appear so formidable that even the City of Cambridge dared...