Nazi. Segregation. Tariff. Back-alley abortion. Fascism. There are some musty old words I thought were going to stay in the musty old books while I went on to learn the words of more happy songs.

Wordle doesn't repeat words if it can help it. Perhaps one day the New York Times will need to start recycling old words, but there's an awful lot of viable five-letter words to choose from, so for ...