Word: widowing
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...finding herself childless, a widow, and sole executor of a large estate, she began, in a "wary, hardbitten, and vigilant manner" to carry on the tradition of the merchant aristocracy to which she had always belonged...
...Loss of Roses finds Playwright William (Picnic) Inge once again in the Middle West of a generation ago, portraying troubled, torn, anonymous lives. This time, he considers the jangled relationship between a widow (Betty Field) and her 21-year-old son (Warren Beatty), and what happens when an out-of-work tent-show dancer who had once been their maid (Carol Haney) comes to stay with them. The mother-whom the son deeply resents because he is too deeply drawn to her-had been happily married and, because of the boy's attitude, has given up marrying again. Aware...
...Israel synagogues, whose congregations will hold their first assembly in Bombay this month. After living and intermarrying for centuries with the Hindus, Bene Israelites practice many Hindu customs. Most of them eat no beef, in observance of the Hindu prohibition against slaughtering cattle. They break the bangles of a widow when her husband dies, and remove from her neck the mangal sutra (auspicious thread) of black beads that a Hindu wife wears while her husband is alive...
...midnight show (the earlier dinner show is considered on the square side) she asked 72 guests, including Gloria Vanderbilt, Ingemar Johansson, aging Aly Khan and his durable friend, French Model Bettina, Arthur Loew Jr. (of the movie Loews) and his bride, who is Tyrone Power's widow. A strict seating plan enforced by flacks and headwaiters deployed the guests at six reserved tables, each equipped with three massive tins of caviar and assorted beverages. Dressed remarkably simply (she wore no jewelry other than diamonds), and more beautiful than ever, Hostess Elizabeth Taylor had just made her hush-provoking entrance...
Married. Catherine Wood Marshall, 45, bestselling author (A Man Called Peter; Mr. Jones, Meet the Master; To Live Again), women's editor of Christian Herald Magazine, widow of the Rev. Peter Marshall, late pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and chaplain to the U.S. Senate; and Leonard Earle LeSourd, 40, executive editor of the interdenominational magazine Guideposts; both for the second time (his earlier marriage ended in divorce); in a ceremony attended by three ministers: the bride's father (Presbyterian), the groom's father (Methodist), and Dr. Norman Vincent (Positive Thinking) Peale (Reformed...