Word: wan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notre Dame's awesome football team went to Baltimore last week unescorted by the master, Frank Leahy. Without his restraining hand, there was no telling what havoc they would wreak on Navy. But Leahy, still wan from an attack of flu, showed up 43 minutes before the kickoff to take charge of keeping down the score...
...first session of the 81st Congress, which had begun its work in high hope ten months ago and passed through despairing depths, ended last week in wan and shaky congratulations among the Democratic majority. There was a great deal of tired, last-minute fun: barbershop ballads, a few well-placed smooches on the cheek by departing Congresswomen and gay festivities by congressional employees (see cut) whose salaries had just been raised...
...what Bevan said was that there was nothing the matter with Britain that had not been handed on by Tory predecessors, or aggravated by Tory criticism during the postwar period. When he finished he got a deafening ovation from Laborites. Deputy Premier Herbert Morrison's smile, however, was wan and sickly. With Attlee tired, Cripps and Ernie Bevin ailing, Morrison and Nye Bevan are the chief rivals for Labor leadership. Bevan's admirers thought his slambang speech had moved him several notches nearer to No. 10 Downing Street...
...since Insurance-Man C. V. (Neil) Starr bought two struggling sheets and merged them, the Evening Post and Mercury had been a lively landmark of the foreign community (at its peak, the Post sold 15,000 copies of its English edition, 200,000 of its Chinese edition Ta Mei Wan Pao). As early as 1932 Editor Gould warned against Japanese aggression and, when a made-in-Japan puppet Chinese regime took over Shanghai, the Post was bombed and ten Chinese staffers were assassinated; Editor
...Four-Star Ovation. Washington unrolled its plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill...