Word: fountaining
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...Rhone River. Wandering tribesmen settled at the lake's edge as early as the Bronze Age. The Romans conquered the place in 120 B.C., and Julius Caesar came to fortify it for his Gallic Wars. In what is now the Place du Bourg-de-Four, where a stone fountain gently splashes through the seasons, the Roman road from Italy once crossed the road to southern France...
Coca-Colas mixed with cherry syrup for years were as much a part of the courtship ritual as convertibles, sock hops and holding hands. Yet the bottling company has never marketed its own version of the fountain concoction. Now it has made a better-late-than-never decision to put cherry Coke in bottles and cans, in its first flavored variation of the soft drink. When the company measured the popularity of several cola mixtures at the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair, cherry was more popular than lemon-, lime- and vanilla-flavored Cokes. Nonetheless, Coca-Cola will continue test-marketing...
...former editor of the Washington Monthly) and returned in the mid-'70s to live in Everglades City and Miami Beach, his current home. His South is not the storied region of literary tradition. There is a theme-park quality to Florida's past. Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth and apocryphal pirates are turned into roadside attractions. For good- ole-boy authenticity, Rothchild heads past the subdivisions and tourist snares until the signs read BEER, AMMO and WORMS...
Heaney, who alternates stints of teaching at Harvard with intense, productive periods of writing at his home outside Dublin, has heeded Joyce. The master of "exile and cunning" would understand the image of inspiration authenticated by Heaney's ringing lines: "That eternal fountain, hidden away,/ I know its haven and its secrecy/ although it is the night...
...park will also include a fountain of some kind and marble posts along the circumference engraved with quotes from the President's speeches, said Burgay...