It looks like the Willy Wonka factory at this point.

I said, Well, I think that's what you call a free willy.

And here is this, then, young man called Willy Bohm who worked for the USAID.

First, Council reform, willy nilly, will overshadow and even eclipse other aspects of United Nations reform.

And it reminded me of that old joke where the bank robber comes out of the courthouse handcuffed, and the reporter yells, Hey, Willy. Why do you rob banks?

Faced with continued internal division, pressing for a meaningful peace process is very difficult for the Palestinians. As a consequence, Israel s willy nilly expansion of West Bank settlements might finally bury comprehensive peace efforts for good.

Should such irrational exuberance force the government, willy nilly, to curtail public investment? Does this mean that government must decide which capital flows say into real estate investment, for example are bad, and so must be taxed or otherwise curbed?

TOKYO Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union used every imaginable threat and inducement including the ultimate prize of reunification to bring about a neutral Germany. But German leaders of both the left and the right, from Konrad Adenauer to Willy Brandt, spurned every Soviet offer.

Of course, it is always easier to export blame than to shoulder it. And, true, no Japanese prime minister has yet fallen to his knees in Nanjing the way Chancellor Willy Brandt did on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, where he apologized for the crimes of Germany by saying, No people can escape from their history.

And I will make 2015 the year that the historical grievances between us and our neighbors are buried for good. Remembering the impact of Willy Brandt s Kniefall at the Jewish ghetto site in Warsaw in 1970, I will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by visiting Nanjing and accepting Japanese responsibility for the terrible massacre of 1937 1938.