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  • Most rectify this by taking one European trip a year, covering a city for seven days rather than getting just a taste, but not everyone can afford an annual cross-pond trip.

    Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide 2009

  • If he had suffered near the cross-pond, before the sheet of water of the other pond he could only call up the memory of healing hours, which he had passed lying on a bed of moss, or a couch of dry reeds, and he looked at it tenderly, trying to fix and carry it away in his memory to re-live again in Paris, shutting his eyes on the bank.

    En Route 1877

  • Even with the cross-pond cultural differences, young adults who are perennially baffled by their aging boomer parents will feel right at home here.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Hank Stuever 2011

  • Ina Fried sounds like she has cross-pond jealousy:

    Latest from Computerworld 2010

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