Word: wan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gray asked District Judge Che Wan Soon (male) of Cheju city what would happen if a Cheju male accused his wife of infidelity. "There would be a fight," said the judge, but he ventured no prediction of who would...
...most dangerous threat to Indian unity. He had repeatedly threatened that unless the Moslems were granted the separate state of Pakistan and complete independence from India's Hindu majority, he would sabotage all further negotiations, even if it meant civil war. After a three-hour conference, Jinnah was wan and grim, but he forced a tight-lipped smile for the photographers...
...story goes, a maiden lady named Susie Slagle kept a boardinghouse for medical students. She fed them well, jollied them along, nursed their emotional ills, let them draw giant-sized cross sections of hearts, lungs and livers on her upstairs wall. She also gave them a wan goodbye kiss when they went out into the world with their brand-new medical degrees...
...stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling Turkish coffee he consumed. He rode majestically through London's streets in a Rolls-Royce provided by the British Government. Finally, again by air, he had flown off to Paris and a royal Gallic welcome. Then, tired and rather wan, he had once more stepped into a plane and returned to Athens and his troubled people...
...side of his Cadillac sedan. They crawled through police lines, hung from balconies, yelled from rooftops, held their children high to see the sight. Slowly the Generalissimo, now smiling happily, passed through the wave of jubilation. Hands were thrust in victory salutes as the people shouted: "Chiang . . . Chung kuo . . . wan sui . . . wan wan sui!-Chiang . . . China . . . live ten thousand years . . . live ten thousand ten thousand years...