Word: wanly
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...applause he?d hear would be part nostalgia, part gratitude. Ray Charles, Little Richard and Fats Domino were the collective Jackie Robinson of mid-century music. They zapped the poor, wan, white pop tunes of the day with a jolt of sex, anguish and fortissimo pianistry. A thing called soul. That?s a kind of genius, and deserves a half-century of thanks...
Police searched the dorm rooms of Wan and another Greenough resident, Michael D. Wang, in the spring of 2002 and turned up items that other Greenough residents had reported missing over the previous months. According to police records, Wan hatched elaborate schemes to steal, among other items, his roommate’s new computer...
...Brian M. Wan, Class...
...have to average 2.73% over the next 10 years just to make the 10year TIPS break even with the standard Treasury. Many money managers doubt that inflation, which currently sits at 2.3%, will get that high in the near term. "I would look for a better entry point," says Wan-Chong Kung, who helps manage $10 billion in bond funds at U.S. Bancorp Asset Management. She recommends that tactical investors wait for prices to come down and for the yield spread between 10-year TIPS and Treasuries to narrow...
...wonder the modern world can find a place for Alan Bennett. In an age of braying, he whispers. In a pop culture consecrated to Don Juan, he seems the grayish professor - a wan don. His plays, for stage and TV, are subtle comedies about daft people (The Madness of George III, The Lady in the Van) or lost ones (An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads). His method is understatement, indirection, irony. "In England, we never entirely mean what we say, do we?" a Bennett character declares in the 1977 play The Old Country. "Do I mean that? Not entirely...