Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wan Smile. Slowly, the clerk began reading off the roll. All but six members of the House voted-an extraordinary total. One of the few who did not vote was Rayburn himself; he would have voted to break a tie, but it never came to that...
...border states, voted against Rayburn, but 22 Republicans, mostly from the urban Northeast, crossed over the party line to save him from a humiliating defeat. When Rayburn announced the totals. Howard Smith stood up and shuffled off the floor and into the cloakroom. "Well," he said with a wan smile, "we done our damnedest." Rayburn's smile was far from wan. "We won." he said, his eyes dancing, "and I am satisfied...
...Administration could initially offer on Laos was a new look by new men. It will support the plan to reconvene the old three-nation (Canada-India-Poland) Control Commission to stop the fighting- a proposal formally presented to Russia by Britain last week. It was a wan hope.* For the new Administration, as for the old, Laos offered the unattractive choice between a difficult peace and an impossible...
...Just how wan was demonstrated last week in Viet Nam, where a parallel control commission, set up at the end of the Indo-China war, still operates. The U.S. presented evidence of a huge arms buildup in North Viet Nam, but the Polish member voted against an on-the-spot inspection, and the Indian chairman agreed...
...Franciscans, modern journalistic history began in 1887 when the late William Randolph Hearst, then 23, received the morning Examiner as a gift from his wealthy father. Almost overnight Hearst turned his wan and unimpressive present into the gaudy forerunner of a 26-paper chain,* and within four years he had sent it soaring ahead of the rival Chronicle on the way to a supremacy reflected in the proud masthead boast: "The monarch of the dailies." Last week, after nearly seven decades as Northern California's biggest and most influential newspaper, the Examiner was deep in a fight...