Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They saw a healthy tan on the familiar face. The lines around his eyes seemed to have disappeared. He no longer drummed the arm of his green leather chair with nervous fingers. But the face was thinner. The top of the head was unequivocally bald. Suddenly, seeing him now after a month's absence, newsmen who have been seeing him once or twice a week for eleven years were struck by the realization that Franklin Roosevelt at 62 is an old man. His health, it appeared, was going to be all right now-provided he does not overwork...
...lone passenger. She was Valsa Anna Matthai, 21, a pretty Indian girl from Bombay, a Columbia University student. She was not wearing the Indian sari pulled over her hair, but a bright kerchief; and as she walked out of the empty, lighted lobby, the operator noticed she wore a tan polo coat, dark slacks, and sport shoes. She had no bag. The street lights along Riverside Drive made pale yellow pools on the drifted snow, but beyond, Grant's Tomb and the park sloping down to the Hudson River were lost in gloom. That was the morning of March...
Simply everybody was in Florida, it seemed. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. escaped easily, returned to Washington with tan and plans for the next War Bond Drive. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague kept an eye on the horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian...
There was not much room in the crowded, pencil-thin 6-25 to lay the wounded man down. There was less room to mix the dried, tan-colored plasma with distilled water, to set' up the bottle and insert the rubber tube in the wounded man's arm. But Co-Pilot August Mirzaoff and Engineer R. V. Smith Jr. remembered their lessons. Slowly life began to return to Doyle's deathly-pale face. By the time the 6-25 reached a base he was much stronger, was pronounced a sure shot for recovery...
...Homecoming. That morning the President had returned to Washington from Cairo and Teheran. Tanned and refreshed, he came back dressed in the most informal attire he has yet worn in the White House-a loud blue plaid shirt, loud blue-striped necktie, tan pullover sweater, and grey sharkskin suit...