Word: widowing
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...Union of Buenos Aires hawked Peronista emblems, and buttonholed Chilean workers for enthusiastic "missionary" talks about the union swimming pools and apartment houses in the new Argentina. One of the sport stars in the delegation who attracted special attention was Socialite Tennist María Teran Weiss, attractive young widow of a Buenos Aires businessman. Reason: she is the latest of eight or ten Argentine beauties to be mentioned as a companion of the President, and likely prospect to succeed the late Evita Perón as First Lady of Argentina...
...luck of the Widow Concepción Blanco de Herrera hit a hungry low one day last week: she had no money, no food, and seven unfed children crowded with her into a single room. But when she collected $3 owed her for washing clothes, she spent only half for groceries. With the other $1.50 she bought, for the second time in her life, a ticket on the Five-and-Six, Caracas' fabulous betting pool...
Based on the last six races of each Sunday's meeting at the Caracas Hippodrome, the Five-and-Six splits 70% of a huge payoff pot among pickers of all six winners, the rest among pickers of five. The widow and her kids, choosing horses strictly on the poetic ring to their names, (e.g., Guadalupana, Sortilegio), filled in the form. She turned it in with a desperate prayer: "Dear God, help me-and if You can't, may it be the devil who will...
Will you please see that the enclosed check for $5 reaches the widow & children of Pang Wha II . . . ? If you will, please convey to her the hope that she will learn soon that the stupidity and evil she has learned to associate with some Americans is not true...
...they wanted Morton-Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week) to woo and win a pretty young Italian widow, then left her in the lurch and sped...