Football widows are usually, but not always, women. Usually the "widow" has little interest in the sport themselves. The tribe grows during the World Cup, and gets a new name "World Cup widow".

算在内的人们，在比赛季期间，他们的另一半往往更加关注比赛，对他们则有些忽视。

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Lemuel Struthers, the widow of Struthers's Shoe-polish, who had returned the previous year from a long initiatory sojourn in Europe to lay siege to the tight little citadel of New York.

她一年前刚结束在欧洲漫长的启蒙侨居，回来围攻纽约这个坚固的小城堡。

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He'll be joined by Bill Cosby, Colin Quinn, Will Ferrell and George Wallace October 8 at Carnegie Hall for "Stand-up for New York, " with proceeds going to the Twin Towers Fund and the New York Police and Fire Widow and Children Benefit Fund.

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"To this day I still hear my boys crying out, yelling for Daddy, when they were told the news, " says Jackie Califano, the widow of a New York police officer killed when a suspected drowsy driver plowed into his parked cruiser in 2011.

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Lawrence is the best-actress favorite at Sunday's Oscars for her role as a young widow in a shaky new relationship with a man fresh from a mental hospital.

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