Word: widowing
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...order to buy eggs and milk for them, Eftihia Christos began working far into each night, sewing hooks and eyes on dresses. Because she failed to report her extra ?2 to ?3 weekly earnings to the National Assistance Board, as required, Magistrate Geoffrey Rose, 69, sentenced Widow Christos to two months in jail for fraud...
...Roosevelt (Teddy Jr.), whose gallant but futile struggle to achieve greatness in the shadow of his father's fame is astutely chronicled by his widow. See BOOKS...
...American Bar Association, the U.S. Supreme Court last week was scolded by one of its own members: peppery Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. The occasion: a 6-2 Supreme Court decision to the effect that a North Dakota farmer may have died by accident rather than suicide, and that his widow could therefore collect on a double-indemnity insurance clause...
...widow in her late forties, and has three children. She is believed to have been a strong candidate earlier this year for the presidency of Smith College...
...bought the tracks. The camera discovers him, in sleek middle age, roaring it up as the beast of the board room of the Eastern & Portland Railroad, whose cringing miscellany of vice presidents is pleading with the "general," as he likes to be called, not to ruin a poor helpless widow (Doris Day) and her two small children. With surly reluctance, he consents to make a nominal restitution to the "miserable broad" for her shipment of lobsters that died on the siding because of his penny-wise policies...