Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...back to Turkey and put it into the Ankara zoo. Subsequently, says the prosecution, he arranged with Agriculture Minister Nedim Okmen, who had charge of the zoo. for the government to buy the dog for $2,200, and gave the money to minor politicos to build a village fountain. The prosecution alleges that 1) the dog already belonged to the state because Bayar got it on an official visit, and 2) its actual worth was a mere...
...broad-shouldered candidate sped through the prosperous North Shore suburbs of Chicago one evening last week, waving from the back seat of a black convertible, clusters of people on the sidewalks cheered, shouted, waved flares and sparklers. The motorcade stretched three blocks as it rolled through Evanston's Fountain Square, on through Wilmette's main crossroads corner. Jammed into the parking lot at the Old Orchard shopping center in Skokie was a crowd of more than 20,000, gathered in caravans, some of which had come from neighboring southern Wisconsin. Scattered through the crowd were homemade signs proclaiming...
...worth attacking, that they liked the author and met him frequently, and to be nice to him in private and publicly nasty would seem uncalled for.'' One example of the deceptive consequences of this attitude was the novels of the late Charles (The Fountain] Morgan. ''His last two or three novels," notes Spender, "were received with almost the same praise as his earlier ones. It was only apparent when he died, from the obituaries, how the bottom had quietly fallen out of his reputation...
...younger brother Sigmund for several years worked as his assistant. For the current show, Basel could find only a handful of oils and sketches that may have been by Sigmund, while Hans the Elder is represented by 79. The most dazzling is the famed Fountain of Life (see color), which once belonged to the wife of Britain's Charles...
...Alabama held her little pupil's hand under a flowing pump spout and manually spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain: "In memory of Anne Sullivan, teacher extraordinary, who beginning with...