Word: widowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would still go back to him for treatment, though she had contracted hepatitis. Albert Briegel, 24, of Langhorne, Pa., gave Weiner credit for stopping his drinking. "I slowed down," said Briegel of the time that he was under treatment, "but when I got hepatitis, I had to stop." A widow and a widower, whose earlier spouses had been among the dead hepatitis victims, quickly got married again-to each other...
Born. To Lauren Bacall. 37, willowy widow of Humphrey Bogart. and Jason Robards Jr., 39, talented, turbulent Broadway and Hollywood star whom she married last July 4: their first child, a son (she has two children by Bogart, he three by a previous marriage); in Manhattan...
...himself. A rock-ribbed conservative Republican, who once called Dwight Eisenhower "that stinking hypocrite in the White House," Loeb for years was a devoted admirer of New Hampshire's G.O.P. Senator Styles Bridges. When Bridges died last month, Loeb publicly urged Governor Wesley Powell to appoint Bridges' widow, Deloris, 45, ta her husband's Senate seat. But Powell, himself a longtime Loeb favorite, decided instead to name his own protégé. Attorney General Maurice J. Murphy...
...July morning in 1949, a police commissaire in the town of Loudun, north of Poitiers, knocked on the door of Marie Besnard, a dowdy, 52-year-old widow, and ordered her to come along. The charge: that she had poisoned with arsenic her mother, father, two husbands, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandmother-in-law, two cousins, great-aunt, and two close friends. Last week, after twelve years and three trials, one of the century's most intricate murder cases-and one of the longest-came...
Married. Walter Prescott Webb, 73, gruff, poker-playing philosopher of the frontier, leading historian of the American West (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers); and former president of the American Historical Association; and Mrs. Terrell Dobbs Maverick, 60, widow of Texas' late salty-tongued Congressman Maury Maverick; both for the second time; in Fredericksburg, Texas...