Word: wanning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...
...entire force. Out of hospital, back on duty as commander of the Armored-Force last week went Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, a pioneer tanker who fought for recognition of armored units long before Hitler sold the idea of a separate Armored Force to the U.S. General Staff. Wan, reedy-thin in mufti, General Chaffee for his homecoming to Fort Knox had a review of the First Division. His men were happy to have him back, happy that last week's orders left him in command of the new Armored Force Headquarters at Fort Knox. For the word...
...marathon spectators had left the Exeter Street finish line when Ed Souder, Jr. and Doug Shepardson, Adams House Seniors, dashed over the 26 mile, 385 yard stripe in a tie for 69th place and collapsed on the rubbing tables. Wearing only dripping shorts and wan smiles, the two men were a sorry sight...
Safely out from under his oxygen tent, tough, square-rigged Eddie Ricken backer wiggled up a wan thumb to prove his recovery. The old ace (28 planes and balloons downed in World War I) confessed that after three weeks' puzzling over the Atlanta plane crash which took eight lives and nearly his own, "I can find no explanation. We were just flying 1,000 feet too low." No man to be stopped by a broken hip, four fractured ribs, Captain Eddie summoned his Eastern Air Linemen, commenced to do business from his hospital...
...terrorists who serve either the Japanese or their Chinese puppet, Wang Ching-wei, have bombed the Post plant five times, slaughtered guards, wounded pressmen, and last month murdered Samuel H. Chang, director of the Post and its Chinese edition, the Ta Mei Wan...