Word: wan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city. Traffic had stopped. Fifth Avenue was as white and vacant as the frozen Yukon, side streets were choked by thousands of stalled cabs, busses and trucks. Parkways were dotted with white mounds, each of which marked an abandoned automobile. Broadway's enormous electric signs made only a wan glow in the gloom. The Queen Mary, and other liners which had canceled sailings, hugged North River piers with their decks heaped with snow...
...Charlie Coulter is out of the lineup with pneumonia until after Christmas. There, the schedule is the toughest in history: all the league standbys are back, and an imposing roster has been added for a vacation roadtrip. "We ought to beat Northwestern and Brown," Chase says with a wan smile...
...time, and that it was too late to find a substitute; that I understood his wanting to retire to Hyde Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough in the dangerous days that lay ahead. He looked wan and tired, and it hurt me to say what I had to say. ..." Roosevelt never told him he was going to appoint him Ambassador. A few days later Winant read the news in the papers...
...what is going on in front of the camera. She is a great crowd-pleaser. Her radio warm-up is one of the phenomena of the business. Her personality, italicized by her manic hats, stimulates the autograph hounds. They fawn on her at the studio gates. "Oh, g'wan with you," says Hedda brusquely. "I'm not a celebrity...
...243n left Rome for Milan, the boiling sun hid under a cloud. Cooling showers put an end to the heat wave that had stifled the city. At the Argentine Embassy, a wan official ran a finger under his collar and said: "I don't know whether I'm gladder that the rain came or that Eva has gone." But in France and England, there were other Argentine officials whose worries were just beginning...