Word: nan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept all his cash in a bucket; But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with...
...with a blue United Fruit Co. seal. Sales of bananas at Harvard Square groceries have tripled in the past week. Highlight of Manhattan's Easter Sunday "bein" in Central Park was a raggle-taggle mob brandishing a giant 3-ft.-long mock banana and chanting "Banana! Banana! Ba-nan-a!" as they snake-danced through the bemused multitude, cheered on by girls wearing banana crowns, while one student, dressed in a yellow slicker, tried to pass himself off as the biggest banana...
...jams and general confusion, the new telly system gives much better reception than the old, a number of rooms have been let to film folk, some of the locals have been hired as extras-and Rex Harrison and Samantha Eggar are due to arrive any day now. Says Mrs. Nan Tresilian, proprietor of an antique shop called the Unicorn Gallery, and a leader in the save-the-village movement: "The people most shocked are the American tourists. They come in here with their hair standing on end, asking, 'How could you let it happen...
...Married. Nan Merriman, 45, mezzo-soprano whose abrupt retirement last April ended a brilliant 25-year concert career; and Tom Brand, 48, Dutch tenor; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1963, leaving ten children); in Heerlen, The Netherlands...
...Leamas and Nan are escaping from East Germany, she asks him over and over again how he can just let people die. He says finally and desperately that it is so people like her can go on living their own ignorant, safe lives. When he is asked to give up even his pathetic, little feeling for her, he seems to say if there is no line drawn at all on expediency, what's the point...