Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Ile de France, clear weather arrived. From Andrea Doria survivors saw a calm ocean "that would make their rescue easier, a wan moon overhead, and across the water the French liner closing in, with all lights turned on to cheer them. Searchlights fingered across the black water as monocled Captain Raoul de Beaudean maneuvered He de France to the leeward side of Andrea Doria to shelter the ten boats she was lowering from the wind...
Danse Macabre. In Prae, Thailand, arrested for the midnight stabbing of her dance partner, Wan Pen (Full Moon) explained wearily to the cops: "We had been dancing to every tune throughout the evening, and I was dead tired...
...Peter Townsend, 41, an air attache at Britain's local embassy. Snorted she: "Absolute nonsense." Seconded Townsend: "Complete nonsense." Added the countess: "I have a close sporting friendship with Captain Townsend." Back in England, meanwhile, Margaret's life seemed much the mixture as before. Looking a trifle wan (she was getting over a cold), the Princess ventured out to see a preview of next year's fashions. Stars, once often seen in her impish eyes, now spangled a veil pendent from her hat of brushed wool...
When the votes were counted, the wan and weary Faure had squeezed by again, 285 to 247. But most of his own Radical Party and almost all the Socialists voted against him. He had the Communists to thank for his victory: their 90 votes had been cast for Faure. But even the Communists left Faure no illusions about the nature of their support. Said Communist Leader Jacques Duclos contemptuously: "Everyone knows that in voting for this [election] project, the Communist group has no intention of voting for the government...
...Last week, with a hearse and 200 friends of the bereaved gathered outside the Sithebe hut, Mavis' father stood ready, hammer in hand, to nail the coffin's lid, while Mavis' grandmother knelt down with a basin of water and washed the girl's wan face. Slowly, the body stirred and turned over, face down. Father and grandmother dropped hammer and basin and rushed from the hut. Followed by the 200 mourners, they ran into the bush crying mercy from the voodoo gods...