Word: wanning
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With Every Weapon. The ladies-moving spirit was an invincible feminist, wan, whisperingly insistent, 65-year-old Alice Paul. During World War I, she had been thrown into jail for picketing the White House; she was forcibly fed when she declined to eat. She helped found the National Woman's Party. She was the spiritual sister of Abigail Adams, of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, the first bloomer girl, of those heroines of women's rights-Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott-before whose statue in the crypt of the Capitol she had posed, tight-lipped...
...Sander's life-by hanging-if it so willed. Indicted on a charge of murder, he rose last week in superior court to make his plea. "What say you?" the clerk asked him. He said clearly: "Not guilty." Free on $25,000 bail, barred temporarily from practicing, wan and tired, he walked out of court to await his trial...
Notre Dame's awesome football team went to Baltimore last week unescorted by the master, Frank Leahy. Without his restraining hand, there was no telling what havoc they would wreak on Navy. But Leahy, still wan from an attack of flu, showed up 43 minutes before the kickoff to take charge of keeping down the score...
...first session of the 81st Congress, which had begun its work in high hope ten months ago and passed through despairing depths, ended last week in wan and shaky congratulations among the Democratic majority. There was a great deal of tired, last-minute fun: barbershop ballads, a few well-placed smooches on the cheek by departing Congresswomen and gay festivities by congressional employees (see cut) whose salaries had just been raised...
...what Bevan said was that there was nothing the matter with Britain that had not been handed on by Tory predecessors, or aggravated by Tory criticism during the postwar period. When he finished he got a deafening ovation from Laborites. Deputy Premier Herbert Morrison's smile, however, was wan and sickly. With Attlee tired, Cripps and Ernie Bevin ailing, Morrison and Nye Bevan are the chief rivals for Labor leadership. Bevan's admirers thought his slambang speech had moved him several notches nearer to No. 10 Downing Street...