Sentences with phrase «of war widows»

A post WWII cop flick involving the theft of war widow's checks and the occasional murder or two.

- Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club «Artis Henderson's remarkable memoir allows readers into the seldom - seen and unexpected world of the war widow.»

The beneficiaries of a war widow's estate have avoided a # 30,000 tax bill — thanks to pioneering work by York - based lawyers Denison Till.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain foresWar II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain foreswar on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The charity's UK office has provided more than # 92,000 to help widows, victims of the war, young people who have lost their jobs, and families in particular need.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legaWar — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legawar cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Here we find the stories of the Jungshindae (the «comfort women»), the war widows, and the workers, peasants and urban poor, exposing the nature of the political powers in the modern Korea.

There was her older sister, the widow of a German Luftwaffe pilot who'd been shot down in the war.

From what I can tell the Pentagon has managed to evade the spirit if not the wording of the Antideficiency Act; but as you can imagine no one is kicking up a ruckus about it since these are payments to war widows.

The Defence and Police Officers» Wives Association (DEPOWA) has built a Skills Acquisition Center in support of the widows of fallen members of the Armed Forces killed by terrorists in the ongoing war on terror.

She played one of the women in the life of the troubled writer at the center of Synecdoche, New York, and she was a war widow in Oren Moverman's The Messenger.

In this family melodrama, a widowed wife of a soldier serving in the Spanish - American War, must raise her two daughters and son, alone.

Barbara Sonneborn's documentary about the effects of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of Vietnamese and American widows.

Set in a blighted, inner - city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman — the mother of a troubled teen son — who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Unfortunately, Madame Mallory (Mirren, RED 2) the French restaurant's widowed owner, won't tolerate the competition, and is willing to undermine her new neighbors, to the point where the Indian family's patriarch, Papa (Puri, Charlie Wilson's War) is willing to play in the same mud of intimidation, if that's what it takes to survive.

THE OTHERS (Grade: B): Nicole Kidman plays an English World War II war widow with two small children in a mansion full of spooks in this effectively creepy, minimalist ghost story directed by Alejandro AmenábWar II war widow with two small children in a mansion full of spooks in this effectively creepy, minimalist ghost story directed by Alejandro Amenábwar widow with two small children in a mansion full of spooks in this effectively creepy, minimalist ghost story directed by Alejandro Amenábar.

Time is both inescapable and irretrievable in Alain Resnais's boldly disorienting masterpiece, which stars Delphine Seyrig as a widow haunted by her memories of World War II.

Ithaca (PG for mature themes, smoking and a violent image) Meg Ryan makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of The Human Comedy, William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, set in 1942, revolving around a 14 year - old's (Alex Neustaedter) attempt to provide for his widowed mother (Ryan) and siblings (Spencer Howell and Christine Nelson) after his older brother (Jack Quaid) goes off to fight in World War II.

Naturally, Nadine is also a complete pain in the ass for her widowed mother (played by Kyra Sedgwick) and her brother who is essentially the antithesis to her; winning comes to him with ease, he's got the body of a Greek God with some pleasant facial aesthetics to boot, and oh yeah, he's now fucking his sister's only friend which obviously doesn't sit right with her, turning the family dynamic of the household upside down into a war zone.

Ramonda is the wise widow of King T'Chaka, who was killed during the events of Captain America: Civil War.

2:00 am (24th)-- TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

Seems that a cranky old widow named Brozzie Drewett (Magda Szubaanski) and a twelve - foot crocodile are having a turf war of sorts.

6:15 pm — TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

It also features fine supporting performances by Marlene Dietrich as the aristocratic widow of a German general executed previously for war crimes, Judy Garland as someone accused in the Third Reich of polluting the Master Race by intermingling with a Jew, and Montgomery Clift as a victim of a Nazi sterilization program.

The film opens with occupation and ends with liberation but focuses on the hothouse atmosphere of intimacy and separation, of desire and denial, in the private meetings of Léon (Belmondo), the unconventional, at times radical and undeniably handsome young priest, and Barny (Riva), a young widow (her communist husband was killed in the war) with a half - Jewish daughter and a strong attraction to Léon.

Upper - middle - class Dorothy is the widow of Victor, who was killed in the war.

The Hall is home to a glamorous widow, Mrs. Ayres (Rampling) and her two grown children, the mesmerizing Caroline (Wilson) and Roddy (Poulter), a badly disfigured veteran of the war.

10:15 am — TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

That war, as we might expect, revealed America in its hard aspect, and it came immediately on the heels of a prolonged hard period of American life: the Great Depression, preceded by a period of rapid industrialization, absent any public programs for the poor and the unemployed and the maimed and the widowed.

Campbell's expressive narration draws listeners into the lives of four women, widows of Hitler - resisters, in this touching and eye - opening revelation of the devastating aftermath of war and of the enduring human spirit.

Set in the waning days of the Civil War, this heartfelt novel follows a widow who finds solace in the camaraderie of her quilting group.

When asked how they obtain their much praised insight into what the ravages of war can do to the human mind, Charles replies that he has spent many wonderful hours listening to service people, their wives and widows, starting in high school when he worked in a retirement home hearing stories about WWI.

Karen Abbott tells the stories of four courageous women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who were spies during the Civil War.

Fifteen years later, Gordon is on a mission to locate a widow trapped in Washington, D.C., during what's now known as the War of 1812.

Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who were spies.

The war made millions of women widows and turned children into orphans.

Christmas at Carnton by Tamera Alexander — In the midst of war and the fading dream of the Confederacy, a wounded soldier and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas, the cost of love... and of loving again.

Believe it or not, it's the 50th Anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, a classic musical tale of the Von Trapp Family singers before World War II and their new tomboyish postulant, Maria, who becomes the governess of the home of a widowed naval captain.

The title is a pun on the phrase «French window,» which alludes to both the doors commonly found in Parisian apartments and the new generation of widows created by World War I.

In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War and facing family financial hardship, Lucy Bakewell Audubon (John James's widow) sold her husband's portfolio of original paintings executed in preparation for his engraved and hand - colored masterwork The Birds Of America (1827 — 38) to the New York Historical Societof the Civil War and facing family financial hardship, Lucy Bakewell Audubon (John James's widow) sold her husband's portfolio of original paintings executed in preparation for his engraved and hand - colored masterwork The Birds Of America (1827 — 38) to the New York Historical Societof original paintings executed in preparation for his engraved and hand - colored masterwork The Birds Of America (1827 — 38) to the New York Historical SocietOf America (1827 — 38) to the New York Historical Society.

The call was from a widow whose husband worked for a US company in Afghanistan and died while working there about six months ago as the result of an act of war.

The contestable period issue was not noted in the decline of benefits.The widow asked me how it could be that a company whose primary source of revenue is from their contracts in war zones, could or would offer a group policy that didn't cover workers doing exactly what the company does and where it does it.

In the 1940s - 50s, we were involved in finding child care and housing for the new breed of working mothers, assistance for war widows and their families, housing for returned GIs and their families, employment for war refugees, and marriage counseling for couples who found that the war had changed them.

Eligible veterans, serving and former defence force members, their war widows and widowers and dependants are provided appropriate compensation, income support, health care and other services in recognition of the effects of war and defence service (Department of Veterans Affairs website, http://www.dva.gov.au/Pages/home.aspx (viewed 20 January 2010)-RRB-.