AWAD has been around a long time now, and this theme is one that Anu has used often. here's an instance from 2007:

"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."

Alice and Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass might as well have been talking about this week's set of words. While these words do not have as many meanings as the word "set" (the Oxford English Dictionary devotes 26 pages to it), each of this week's hard-working words has many unrelated meanings. And they are not bland, like the word set. [emPHAsis added]

p.s. - I used the 'site search' (the one on the top of the page) to find this; haven't had much occasion to use that!

p.p.s. - odds on this being yet another drive-by posting are perhaps only 1 to 4, against, seeing as how Avery went to the trouble of adding an avatar to his post.

Last edited by tsuwm; 02/19/2011 9:36 PM.