Sentences with phrase «war widow»

A "war widow" is a woman whose husband has died because he was part of a war. Full definition
A safe bet by the Pentagon - as punching war widows in the face is bipartisan suicide for a politician.
After viewing the documentary film Regret to Inform, students examine the impact of the Vietnam War on the lives of war widows from all sides of the conflict.
And since this is a site for politics questions, not finance questions, I draw your attention to LaterealFractal's other point - «punching war widows in the face is bipartisan suicide for a politician».
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 Amenábar.
THE OTHERS (Grade: B): Nicole Kidman plays an English World War II war widow with two small children fighting off a mansion full of spooks in this effectively creepy, minimalist ghost story.
These are all fine performances in a cast that also includes a surprising dramatic turn from Amy Schumer, who proves she has chops beyond comedy in playing a desperate war widow who begs Schuman to tell her how her husband died just as he was about to get a leave home.
I'm thinking the Act can't be evaded that easily and it only seems so in this instance because all parties are turning a blind eye to allow war widows to get paid.
If you are un-married, you are preferred, war widow also preferred.
When a wounded World War II resistance fighter is brought to the home of Cornelia, a young war widow, she knows that taking him in means risking her life.
A # 1 Indie Next pick which debuted at # 6 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list, the novel portrays three German war widows who have taken refuge in a Bavarian castle as the war ends.
She talked about her health, the problems she encountered while paying her electricity bills or applying for her special war widow pension, the sidewalks covered with thin ice in the mornings.
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.
A post WWII cop flick involving the theft of war widow's checks and the occasional murder or two.
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.
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.
Let's say I'm a war widow.
I am a war widow, but I do not let this define me.
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 an interesting bit of casting, Amy Schumer plays a war widow.
Being the messenger weighs heavily on Montgomery and he finds himself drawn to a war widow -LRB-
Being the messenger weighs heavily on Montgomery and he finds himself drawn to a war widow (Samantha Morton, In America) who takes the news of her husband's death in a unexpected way.
- 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.
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