Word: wanning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cities, they are more than a novel convenience; they are a necessity. In darkened Britain, during the early months of blackout, the death rate from falls, collisions and other accidents was almost twice that of well-lit peacetime years. Still high, it would be far higher without the wan yellowish gleam of curbs, guide rails, doorways, signs and even pedestrians' lapels and trouser cuffs touched with luminescent pigments...
...Kong's second week of siege. The Fragrant Port was hard-pressed on every side. The defending line, held by British, Canadian, Chinese, Scottish and Indian soldiers, threaded shakily across the island, from Mt. Davis in the west, through world-famed Happy Valley Race Course, to Mt. Sai Wan in the east, just off Tathong Channel...
...Looking wan after a grueling, 13,000-mile flight, suffering from a sore tooth and with a head full of secrets, Laurence Steinhardt arrived home from Russia...
...Life. Astonished were the biologists upon finding a small green valley amid the icy wastes of Palmer Land (straight south of Cape Horn). Surrounded by high cliffs which concentrated the wan Antarctic sunlight, mosses, lichens and even grasses grow for one or two months each year, even though for the rest of the year they must endure 100-mile blizzards and - 60° cold. And there lives the largest land animal yet found on the Antarctic Continent: a kind of springtail, or primitive wingless insect, which is one-half inch long...
...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...