Word: moat
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...first Ivy League prison complete with a crocodile-infested moat may be constructed this summer in the guise of Harvard's Education School Castle, Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci revealed yesterday...
...building has been called a "castle" partly because its designs call for few windows and a large "moat-like" courtyard. Kaelber explained that the architects consider these features helpful in fitting the building into the surroundings...
...They wanted a 'quiet' building where people outside would be fairly unaware of activity inside," Kaelber said. It was also decided that the structure would be less disturbing if it did not occupy all the available land. Hence the "moat...
...seven story castle with massive walls, a moat like courtyard and practically no windows will be located next to historic Christ Church, Cambridge...
...Rings (and every teacher should) will begin to see the tower as something other than the beacon of American education. Behind the window slits, vaulted ports, and bulging bastions, grey-green scaly orks will lurk, whispering in the Black Speech, plotting hideous amusements. Hulking trolls will patrol the moat. Shelob, the monstrous arachnid, will have spun her webs among the stairways, ducts, and circuits of the "service perimeter." On the battlements will wait the flying Nazgul, their piercing cries cutting across the Common...