Word: moat
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After Gupta arrived by helicopter on Wednesday, hours passed before it was safe to ferry him past the snipers and across a putrid moat into the hospital building. With a full evacuation still several days away, "people came to me and said, 'Why haven't they taken care of us? Why did they forget us?'" The food supply was down to beans and a few raw vegetables; candy vending machines had long since been emptied. "One of the guys here has been trying to call FEMA, and all he gets is a busy signal or voice mail," Gupta said...
...anemone-covered King Cadwallen, which sank in 1906. Good underwater visibility ensures excellent scuba diving (www.scillydiving.com). For an island history lesson, try the Star Castle Hotel on St Mary's, tel: (44-1720) 422317; www.star-castle.co.uk. Dating from 1593 and shaped like an eight-pointed star, it has a dry moat, ramparts and a bar that was once a prison. Like the Star Castle, the Scillys themselves offer a delightful step back in time. www.simplyscilly.co.uk
Gross once said that freshman life in the Yard is like being surrounded by a “moat,” a metaphor that indicates the physical and psychological separation between freshmen and upperclassmen...
...agency and Kim's race-car-building business. It's also a place where family and friends can visit and take a gander at the extensive trove of antiques and collectibles the couple have acquired over the years. They refer to their home, unabashedly, as the "New American Castle"--moat not included...
...children 16 and under. There are student and senior discounts. All the same, for a lot of people, it won't be a place where you just stroll in at lunchtime anymore. Will the headquarters of modern art also become the castle keep, a fortress surrounded by a moat called $20? "It falls on us," says Lowry, "to make sure that the value greatly exceeds the cost." The Modern has always lived up to that goal in the past. But this time, it has set its bar pretty high...