Word: moat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repited the master, "they will go Swift past Smith and Williams, past Moat and Cassel to Blake through the Big Red Lynn...
Persuasive Mail. Last summer. Chen Yi overran the railroad south of Tsinan. Isolated and besieged, Wang strengthened his defenses. He threw a four-ply line of pillboxes and barbed wire around the outskirts of the city, dug a ten-foot moat. After seeing that the ancient brick wall around the inner city was properly sandbagged, he flew down to Nanking. He asked for one more division-with which, he said, Tsinan could be held. While he pleaded, Chen Yi struck...
...Into the Moat. The fire finally drove us into the walled, moated compound of the old palace, which now houses government offices. Across the moat an Army gasoline dump went up, shooting gasoline barrels a thousand feet into the air to start new fires wherever they landed. The palace wall, which in its three centuries had withstood American bombs as well as earthquakes, toppled into the moat...
...mission to clear the road from the city for incoming aid. With the heat of the street scorching the soles of our feet and smoke bringing tears to our eyes, we walked through the bright red city. We passed Japanese firemen trying to pump water from the palace moat, the only remaining source in the whole city. After the B-29s, people had taken refuge in the waters of the moat, hoping to escape the flames; hundreds of bodies had been found there. The people of Fukui say that tonight's quake was worse than...
...seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for 37 years, resigned and "moved across the moat...