Word: fount
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...Shakespeare's Henry IV told his successor. It is hyper-nationalism and xenophobia that fuses regime and people, rich and poor, losers and winners in one Great National Whole. Jingoism is the traditional antidote against discontent and revolt, and the Chinese have been made to lap from this fount aplenty. Remember the week-long war of the aroused masses against the U.S. diplomatic compound in Beijing after the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade...
With these two men in key positions, the TVA soon became a fount of largesse for other Gore supporters and advisers. Within weeks of Crowell's and Hayes' swearing in, the TVA hired Washington lobbyist Peter Knight, who had run Gore's House and Senate offices for years and helped direct his 1988 presidential bid. It is questionable how badly Knight was needed. The TVA already had four in-house lobbyists, as well as plenty of Congressmen from its seven-state service region, fighting for its interests. It also had a Vice President who hardly needed coaxing to support...