Word: wan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby?'' she asked the doctor apprehensively (Jackie Kennedy had lost two babies by miscarriage before the birth of her daughter Caroline three years ago-a record that had curtailed her campaigning). Dr. Walsh assured her that all would be well, as the ambulance...
...adventure pervades Kennedy's rhetoric. Again and again in a single speech, the Senator draws applause with an appeal "to help us those this country forward again." Its choice of adjectives--"strong," "vital," "energetic," "vigorous"--would have delighted Theodore Roose veldt. The Rough Rider has reappeared, pale and wan, as the new frontier man. His bugle blast has faded into an earnest call for "a society with purpose, a society with strength...
...Hear, Hear." Erratic Patrice Lumumba emerged from the Premier's residence only long enough to attend a 9 p.m. "luncheon" put on by the diplomats from Guinea, who still wistfully hoped to propel him back to power. Looking dour and wan, he declaimed his standard piece: the Soviet Union was the only nation interested in peace; he had asked the U.S. for help but was told to get it from the U.N. "I did not understand this comedy," he cried. But now everything was clear: the U.S. wanted a monopoly on Katanga's uranium, and big American interests...
...moment I started talking of imperialism, the bomb exploded." But he announced a police-state innovation, apparently long planned: a neighborhood spy system set up to "know who lives in each block and what he does." Off went a second bomb and Castro's smile grew wan. "Let us not underestimate the imperialist enemy," he said...
There are two self-portraits in the exhibit from 1914, one of the painter as Saint Sebastian (typical of Schiele's persecution complex), and the other an oil in which Schiele appears with deep-set eyes and a wan, bony countenance. As Death, he reaches out towards his model who shrinks away into the somber, slightly cubist background...