Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always has something that hurts. If you don't, that's when you should start to worry"). When the stadium rocked with applause after Comaneci received her fourth 10 during the all-around individual competition, Olga slowly but pointedly walked halfway around the Forum to the water fountain. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes bungling (one night she even fell off the balance beam), Korbut still held the crowd. And when her last exercise of the Olympics ended (a sparkling 9.90 on the beam that earned her a silver to add to her team gold), the farewell applause dinned for minutes...
...redevelopment program, succinctly defined the times. "We have raised the right to be ugly to the level of the Bill of Rights," he told a congressional subcommittee. "By the millions, American tourists have gone to Europe to walk the streets of ancient cities, to linger by a glorious fountain, to rest on a piazza bench and watch the world...
FROM THE BEGINNING, the meeting of Europe and America was colored by illusions. Columbus retreated from the Orinoco delta because he thought he had found the Earthly Paradise; Coronado chased across the deserts in search of seven golden cities; Ponce de Leon died in pursuit of the Fountain of Youth. The Indians were just as perplexed, believing at first that the conquistadors on horseback were centaurs, and later that these red-bearded, pale-skinned men were gods returning to fulfill an apocalyptic prophecy...
Elocutionist, winner of the Arkansas Derby, is another horse who is garnering upset consideration. Trained by E.C. Cashman, Elocutionist also captured the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulf-stream Park, and has the potential to take advantage of a rapid early pace with his late rally tactics...
...sitting in the lobby, but each time the copier is used, it takes another nickel off the bottom line." Then again, bosses eager to save those nickels may have to reflect that many employees would accept controls on copiers about as eagerly as they would meters on the water fountain...