Word: widow
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...vote for Nixon and Lodge. With Byrd by his side, the President looked in on the drab little home at Mount Sidney where his mother was born, attended the annual luncheon of the Woodrow Wilson Birth place Foundation in nearby Staunton. (Notably absent was President Wilson's widow, a Kennedy supporter.) At the town's Mary Baldwin College for women, Ike utilized his eulogy of Wilson to suggest that the nation once more "must choose between the conflicting teachings of political expediency on the one hand and the pursuit of noble, long-term goals on the other...
...morning Union (circ. 81,000), the evening News (100,000) and the Sunday Republican (112,000). The papers are the succulent descendants of a family empire founded in 1824 by Samuel Bowles. Newhouse's buy included possession rights to a 45% stock holding that belonged to the widow and four children of Sherman Hoar Bowles, the papers' eccentric last dynastic proprietor, who died in 1952. But until 1967. voting rights to that 45% are held, by a voting trust controlled by trustees of the papers' pension funds. (Bowles, though he fought unions, was a paternalistic employer...
...Marquise was clearly pregnant, but she didn't know how she had gotten that way. Hers was not the usual fault of having been too generous to too many men. She was a virtuous Italian lady of noble birth, a gentle widow and devoted mother. Her father, mother and doctor were not amused when she denied having entertained any man, and a midwife sternly reminded her that only the Virgin Mary had been raised above the law of nature. Whereupon the baffled Marquise put an ad in the paper, described her predicament and asked any man to come forward...
Golden Days. Early in the 9th century, when Fez was still a young hamlet, its ruler cried: "O God, make this city a center of law and science where your book [the Koran] will be studied." To fulfill this dream, a wealthy widow of Fez commissioned Karaouine mosque, which took 278 years to complete. The mosque was already famed as a university when the first European university was established in Bologna about noo. Begun as a theological seminary, Karaouine soon taught 8,000 students everything from medicine to geography...
This impressive new novel begins as a Midwestern idyl set on a leafy, residential street in Rainbow Center, Ohio. A widow er of 78. Realtor Boyd Mason comes home to the wide-lawned Victorian house he shares with his sister Alma, a spinsterish ex-schoolteacher. Each day is an agreeable carbon of the one before. Boyd grumbles contentedly about Alma's bluntness, stinginess and love of gossip. Alma gets comfortably cross at Boyd's deafness, his lack of interest in scandal, his irritating habit of forgetting to flush the toilet...