1.   At the old Amvets tavern here, the voices of Inez Lang and her widowed friends rise with the next round of vodka sours.

2.   Daily, she phones a half-dozen widowed friends who are living by themselves.

3.   Selma Marx was standing in a movie line with a recently widowed friend when the man in front of them lighted a large cigar.

4.   Widowed friends have told me they went through periods of anger, one of the accepted stages of grief, so this might not always be a good idea.