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Word: moat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very rich, as Hemingway said, are different from you and me, then the royals are different from the very rich, separated by some indefinable chasm from those who have merely money or power or fame. Japan's Emperor Hirohito is sometimes known as Ohoribata (the honorable personage across the moat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Ambassadors From The Realm of Fairy Tale | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

There was no electrified fence. Not even a moat with huge walls. No Jack Nicholson in mirrored sunglasses standing arms akimbo with a german shepherd by his side waiting to shoot the first thing that moved across the line. Just 300 Mexicans--Hondurans, Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans, and Portugese too, but mostly Mexicans--wandering around one side of an invisible line waiting for night fall...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Border Order | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...flew pregnant women to hospitals to have their babies. In London, where temperatures dipped as low as 16 degrees, churches opened their doors to the homeless. Officials at the London zoo locked the lions inside cages for fear they would escape from their enclosures by walking across a frozen moat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Waiting Out the Big Chill | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...morning and breathing-optional rides in the shuttle bus During the renovations, the house may be in various levels of disarray. However, the conditions in buildings like Eliot (euphemistically called a dorm with "character") make the mess worthwhile. Students also cited "Lake Barnard" during rainstorms, the inevitable "Quad Moat" after rainstorms, a current wide disparity of housing, shuttle bus speed bumps, and a less-than-stellar salad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting to Know Your House | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

Nobody was hurt when half of the slab-fell into Blodgett Court, or The Moat, as it is more popularly known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Overhaul Comes After Overhang Falls | 10/9/1985 | See Source »

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