Word: moat
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Whenever the military moves to shutter a base, the member of Congress in whose district it is located rises in righteous indignation. Given the you- scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-yours philosophy that reigns on Capitol Hill, even such an anachronism as Virginia's moat-encircled Fort Monroe -- built for the War of 1812 -- has been spared, although it costs $186 million a year and serves no useful military purpose...
Living in the Yard as a freshman, one is like an innocent young princess, who since birth has been locked in a granite tower surrounded by a black and murky moat filled with starving, rabid mutant crocodiles. Since she never leaves, she has absolutely no idea how dangerous it can be. On the rare occasions when I crossed over to the Coop, I simply waited for the light to change. At first, it did strike me as strange that the cars never stopped, but I somehow whistled my way through that carefree year, my illusions intact...
...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...
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...
...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...