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Brewer's: Want

or Went. A road. Thus “the four-want way,” the spot where four roads meet. Chaucer uses the expression “a privie went” (private road), etc.…

Brewer's: Wants

meaning “gloves.” According to the best Dutch authorities, the word is a corruption of the French gant, Italian quanto, our “gauntlets…

Most Wanted

Director: David Glenn HoganWriter: Keenen Ivory WayansDirector of Photography:Marc ReshovskyEditors:Michael J. Duthie and Mark HelfrichMusic:Paul BuckmasterProduction Designer:Jean-Philippe…

Most Wanted Terrorists

The FBI's newest tactic (Images Source/FBI) Related Links Al-QaedaOsama bin Laden is SEALed and DeliveredHezbollahTerrorism Around the WorldTerrorist Trouble SpotsInt'l Terrorist…

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

ABCScheduled whenever there's room on ABC's scheduleHost:Regis Philbin The surprise hit of the season and perhaps the decade, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, inspired by a British gameshow,…

What Women Want

Director:Nancy MeyersWriters:Josh Goldsmith and Cathy YuspaParamount; PG-13; 123 minutesRelease:12/00Cast:Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei What Women Want derives its title from the side…

Four Freedoms

(Encyclopedia) Four Freedoms. In his message to Congress proposing lend-lease legislation (Jan. 6, 1941), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated that Four Freedoms should prevail everywhere in…

jingoism

(Encyclopedia) jingoismjingoismjĭngˈgōĭzəm [key], advocacy of a policy of aggressive nationalism. The term was first used in connection with certain British politicians who sought to bring England…

Ten Most Wanted List

The Ten Most Wanted List A history by David Johnson Alleged U.S. Embassy terrorist Osama bin Laden. (Source/FBI) Boston organized crime figure James J. 'Whitey' Bulger. (Source/FBI) Related…