Word: wan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern airport thousands of civilians, waiting their turn to board a plane, swarmed over the frozen field. At night they huddled together in a drafty, bomb-blasted hangar. In the day they stood in the wan sunlight shaking the chill from their limbs as C-46s droned in monotonously from dawn till dusk. As Communist troops drew nearer and nearer, the panicky ticket holders began to riot. After Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport made its last flight out of Mukden, those who could set out in automobiles and mule carts to run the Communist gauntlet to Yingkow...
...Three game, when the team loges, there is always the crowd, the hand, and tradition. Saturday the crowd wan 38,000, the bands totaled about 185, and tradition, well, there is a lot of ivy at Princeton...
...Greenness of Grass. What had happened to Oxford-or that splinter of it that "Oxonian" had stubbed his toe on? "Oxonian" thought one man was largely to blame-a wan and wispy philosopher named Alfred Jules ("Freddie") Ayer. Ayer's book, Language, Truth and Logic, had "acquired almost the status of a philosophic Bible" at Oxford. It insisted that "value judgments" of beauty and goodness were, philosophically speaking, nonsense. They were moral sentiments, not facts at all. Such heresies, "Oxonian" thought, left no place for human values, created the moral void fascism required...
...leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...
Back in Washington something had indeed turned up. But it was hardly reassuring. At C.I.O. headquarters a wan Phil Murray and P.A.C.'s beady-eyed boss, Jack Kroll, were holding a conference calculated to undo the soothing effects of Mr. Truman's vacation. They were not ready to make any public statement. But Murray and Kroll, so the Washington rumor ran, had met to devise some way by which Mr. Truman could be persuaded to withdraw as a candidate for re-election -and consider whom they could get to run on the Democratic ticket instead...