Word: widowing
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...indecision, corruption and leftward drift under the Sri Lanka Freedom Party of assassinated Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, Ceylon badly needed a firm and honest hand on the tiller. But tardily proclaiming itself opposed to Communist influence, the Sri Lanka Party paraded Bandaranaike's weeping widow all over Ceylon, garnered enough sympathy to split the conservative vote, almost match (50 to 46) the U.N.P. in total seats...
...Trotskyite opposition. Last week, defeated on a technical vote of no confidence, Senanayake gave up, asked Ceylon's Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke to dissolve Parliament and call new elections in July. By then, Senanayake hoped, Ceylon's voters would be less susceptible to an overwrought widow's overworked tears, return the U.N.P. with a workable majority...
Besides FTC, a grand jury in St. Louis was also investigating Murray selling practices, turned up an instructive lesson in how much a "free course in dancing" can eventually cost. Mrs. Emma Frisch, a 60-year-old widow and part-time employee in a hat factory, testified that last year an Arthur Murray studio called her and told her she had won a free dance analysis...
...some time before the poet's death, mercifully perhaps, D'Annunzio had been slightly mad. Mussolini and the poet's neglected widow were the chief mourners...
SOFAR put Ewing in the oceanographic big time. He soon moved to Columbia to set up new courses in geophysics. In 1948 the widow of New York Financier Thomas W. Lament left to Columbia her magnificent Hudson River estate. Ewing and his staff moved in. What particularly took Ewing's eye was a spacious underground root cellar (30 ft. by 5° ft) cut in solid bedrock. During the Depression, according to the local story, the Lamonts had stocked it with food to carry them through an expected revolution. Ewing found it an ideal hideaway for his sensitive seismographs...