Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many papers which ordinarily would have used their own reporters to cover the story--the Globe and Newsday, for instance--instead ran AP's version of it. The AP story made it seem that the Reagan Administration was doing something beneficial for college students not born with a silver fountain-pen in their breastpocket...
...have both -- meet me at the fountain in the Jardin des Tuileries at 4 p.m. today...
...Evanston, Ill., who plan this month to open their third Video Adventure store, attract an upscale clientele by stocking foreign titles and films featuring dance and opera. Unless other neighborhood video shops find such niches, they could conceivably go the way of the malt shop and the soda fountain...
...Seale's diligence, mysteries still abound. Did a courthouse in Charleston, S.C., inspire George Washington and lead to the White House design? Seale thinks so, but there is no exact record. One mystery was solved: the reason for a lonely stone fountain on White House ground commemorating Artist Francis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt. Since the only other such commemoration on the grounds is the statue of Andrew Jackson, the fountain bore investigating. Archie Butt, it turns out, was a popular bachelor who served as White House military aide for both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Returning from a vacation...
...Secret Service would not confirm the account, but the White House apparently is equipped with secret sensors that can detect tiny amounts of radioactivity. The high technology has a good purpose. A nuclear device in this era of refined mischief could be as small as a fountain...