Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even speak English well enough to express myself. I'm afraid that my cherished reputation, which I built by long years of conscientious work in the army, may be ruined in politics." To forfend any such disaster, Premier Thanom shrewdly asked Thailand's wise and respected Prince Wan Waithayakon and two other distinguished Thai statesmen and scholars to serve as Vice Premiers...
...Sided Proposition. Then, while Dulles took over for 20 minutes the President sat in wan profile, self-consciously fiddling with his glasses or staring in painful attentiveness over Dulles' shoulder...
High point of the show is a forlorn ballad sung by Lanky Blonde Ellen Hanley about a wan, straight-haired maiden who attends a meeting of an antique music society and trustingly goes home with a base-hearted fellow enthusiast...
...biennial exhibition that opens at São Paulo, Brazil this week contained no less than 5,000 contemporary paintings, and of them perhaps one in ten might interest future ages. Standout shows within the show were a collection of pale and wan but faultless abstractions by Britain's Ben Nicholson, the weightless, rainbow fantasies of France's Marc Chagall, and 30 dim-dusty canvases by Italy's Giorgio Morandi. Nicholson and Chagall were considered stiff contenders for the 300,000-cruzeiro ($3,780) grand prize. After the usual frenzied politicking, the 17 international jurymen settled...
...resolution named Prince Wan Waithayakon, able and gentle Foreign Minister of Thailand and president of the Eleventh General Assembly, as a special envoy to try to persuade Russia and Hungary to comply with the previous resolutions. Hungary let it be known that he would not be welcome...