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Word of the Day for Tuesday, August 3, 2010tarry \TAR-ee\, verb: 1. To remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn. "It would be well," he added, "to let this man go in again, as usual, and for him to tarry in the lodges, giving notice to the gentle ones of our approach, until we call him out, by signal, to consult. You know the cry of a crow, friend, from the whistle of the whippoorwill?" Wilson allows his tour groups to tarry at the site, soaking up the strange feelings there and taking plenty of pictures in front of the wooden sign that still reads "Building 84." Tarry's ancestor is the Middle English taryen, "a delay." | |||||||||
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  Actually, the "mad" in the TV show "Mad Men" isn't short for madness, so what does it mean?Are you ready to have an aha moment? "Mad Men" has more sin and angst than your average pop culture sensation, but the show's characters hardly meet the definition of insanity. This "mad" doesn't refer to a bunch of pissed off guys in natty retro attire, either. "Mad men" is a historical term short for "Madison Avenue" men, coined by... | |||||||||
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