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...from Behind. On the gravel paths and carefully groomed sod of the Plaza, by the 250-year-old Imperial moat, a bloody, violent scene burst into life. The Internationale roared in a thousand throats and the Communists brought out of concealment rocks, bags of offal and vicious, steel-reinforced bamboo spears. They surged toward thin cordons of police. In the first wave marched spear-and club-wielders. Behind them, in the classic tactic of trained street fighters, were ranks of stone-throwers. Messengers scurried between the lines to transmit orders from leaders, and on the sidelines girls stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Troubled Springtime | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...beast, originally from the Belgian Congo, gained considerable notoriety last June when he fell in a moat at his Bronx Zoo home and promptly drowned. After rescue efforts of his keeper failed to revive him, Makoko was put on ice and Dr. Erikson was hastily summoned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickled Primate Is Anatomy Exhibit A | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

Writes Father Gerard: "While we were passing the time of day together, it struck me how close this tower was to the moat encircling the outer fortifications, and I thought it might be possible for a man to lower himself with a rope from a roof of the tower onto the wall beyond the moat." A few weeks later, with the help of confederates outside, he did exactly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hunted Jesuit | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

AUGUST-Missing Links. In Vancouver, B.C., police sought four tosspots who had been pushing each other into a zoo moat to entertain the sober inhabitants of Stanley Park's monkey house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Missing Links. In Vancouver, B.C., police sought four tosspots who had been pushing each other into a zoo moat to entertain the sober inhabitants of Stanley Park's monkey house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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