Word: widowing
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...seaward slopes of the Santa Marta Mountains inhabited by the Kogi Indians . . . Far from being reluctant to sex, the mama to whom I talked, professed interest and wonderment at my being one of the first white women he had ever seen. After cautiously inquiring if I was a wealthy widow, he promptly proposed. I did not stay long enough to disprove further Reichel-Dolmatoff's claims...
...Eisenhower, Mrs. Fiorello La Guardia, widow of the famed "Little Flower," who, while mayor of New York City, helped organize the American Labor Party. Mrs. La Guardia supported Roosevelt in 1944, Truman...
...syndicate took over his policy wheels, and it was hard for his admirers not to feel that Ted Roe, for once, had pushed his luck too far. That is, until his widow let them in on a secret: Lucky Ted had an abdominal cancer, and expected to die within a few months...
...Pakistan, upon its creation in 1947, began to loosen some of the old restrictions on women: purdah lost ground, women got a couple of seats (which they still hold) in the parliament. But the mullahs of Islam have reasserted the old customs; the Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, widow of the assassinated Premier and once a militant suffragist, has been forced into a quiet life, and the wife of the new Premier hides uncomplainingly in strictest purdah...
...Phony! The first mudpie was hurled by an old friend of the family, Dorothy Wesley Bernie, widow of Ben ("The Old Maestro") Bernie and matron of honor at the Rose wedding 13 years ago. In California she filed a suit for criminal libel against Billy, and swore out a warrant for his arrest if he ever set foot in the state. Her charge: Rose was passing around an affidavit from her onetime Negro maid, Alberta Jones, that contained obscene, "horrible lies" about sex orgies that supposedly took place in Mrs. Bernie's home and involved her, Eleanor...