Word: fountaining
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...attention to a cartoon depicting Dean Acheson . . . as a 'bacterial bug.'" Moraes noted that Chinese who speak English with an American accent are nervous about where they got their education; he met one Columbia-educated Chinese interpreter who, while favoring American-style clothes and flaunting an American fountain pen, carefully made it clear that she had "hated every minute" of her stay...
...brightly colored drinking fountain that looked vaguely like some giant metallic orchid-8 ft. high, with flowing petals and a stippled yellow, blue and white enamel finish. There was a high spout for adults, and a lower one for children. Decorating the fountain were abstract figures with long, storklike arms and legs. Junyer worked out his idea last year on a trip to Sweden, when it suddenly struck him how "stylized and ugly" drinking fountains had become. With the help of Swedish Architect Hans Asplund, he assembled four old bathtubs, then worked six weeks to cut, weld and enamel them...
...part in U.S. urban life. Fifty years ago (and even today in many localities), the traditional city park consisted of a generous area of well-kept green grass, sprinkled with shade trees and sometimes with flowers, gravel walks for strollers, hard benches for sitters, usually an iron or stone fountain, and often a wooden bandstand. Now the trend is toward parks which are useful as well as ornamental...
...officially respected.* But four years ago, some of Mellon's Pittsburgh friends decided that he had been anonymous long enough. They raised more than $300,000 and commissioned architects to design a tribute. Last week, on a triangular plot across from the Gallery, a classically simple bronze fountain was dedicated. A nearby bench of granite bears the inscription: "Andrew W. Mellon. Financier-Industralist-Statesman . . . This fountain is a tribute from friends...
...year, ten months and three days after the outbreak of war in Korea, the U.S. last week wrote an end to an earlier Pacific campaign which had carried the nation's hopes of peace in the Far East. With a plastic fountain pen from his desk set, President Harry Truman scratched his signature to the peace treaty with Japan and wrote in the date: April 15, 1952-just ten years, four months and eight days after Pearl Harbor...