Word: wan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nowhere wan the "green officers and green men" principle more wholeheartedly adopted than at Harvard, where students got into uniforms much faster than the government could supply officers to instruct them...
...first demonstration had marched such men as Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, making his quadrennial obeisance to democracy, forcing a wan smile as the Kelly hoodlums crumpled his creases, his correct collar wilted and even askew. But the second demonstration was given over to the "muggs," with a sprinkling of such earnest souls as Maury Maverick, Claude Pepper, Movie-Actor Melvyn Douglas (who hopes soon to be Governor of California...
...Cornelius Vander Starr, No. 1 life insurer in the Far East, real-estate speculator, owner of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury and a TiMEstyle China newsmagazine. East. Ten months ago the editor of Starr's Ta Mei Wan Pao, Chinese edition of the Evening Post & Mercury, was shot dead as he crossed the bridge over Soochow Creek. Last April Starr's newspaper plant was bombed, killing three Chinese and an Annamese policeman...
...Rome the first night of war was black. A few people danced in the soft summer air under wan cerulean lights...