Word: wanning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days in any farm, community would reveal to even a critical British traveler that surprisingly few of the girls or their mamas are pale and wan, with "narrow hips . . . and slender, nonprehensile hands." He would discover in any small town, and perhaps be cheered to learn, that not all of the homes consist of a "spectacled, crushed-looking man" dominated by a starved and sterile-appearing clotheshorse...
...With a wan, understanding smile, the head coach said he was sorry, and wished he had some extras himself. The man nodded sadly, turned, and walked dejectedly in the direction of the Charles River...
According to Dining Hall Director A. Margaret Bowers, quoted in the dispatch, Yale men have taken to a new and particularly troublesome kind of table-hopping. After reading in advance menus posted in the ten colleges, the Hall of Graduate Studies, and even the Divinity School, students wan and emaciated from meagre rations of sundry things on toast are able to augment their diets by guest appearances at eating places other than their own. By downing three dinners in as many halls, they absorb the equivalent of a normal, pre-meat-shortage meal...
...Morrison Shift. The Tories looked wan and depressed. After the echoes of senior Party Leader Winston Churchill's voice had died away at their Blackpool conference (TIME, Oct. 14), little solid matter was left. With Conservative Party policy only a. vague outline, the Tories could do little but peck pettishly at Herbert Morrison for using a Government automobile on a vacation trip...
Roxas refused, pleading ill health. Premier Tojo gave a dinner for him, and repeated the puppet proposition just before the meat course. Roxas explained about his health. Tojo sent three physicians to look him over. They found him in bed, weak, wan and sweating (Roxas, warned of their approach, had just been given a fever injection and had run up & down stairs). They diagnosed his trouble as hypertension...