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...that same moment, sentries on an opposite corner of the wall rubbed their eyes. A flock of black sheep was emerging from the night like a moving blot. When the animals reached the wide moat in front of the wall they plunged in, began swimming across; yet there were no visible herdsmen. A sentry fired into the flock. One of the dark objects in the moat erupted in a geyser of flame and water. Then men on the wall witnessed an amazing thing: some of the sheep seemed to be flipping off their black wool skins and running away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Black Sheep | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...street the car is picked up by an escort of white MP jeeps. On the five-minute ride to work, MacArthur passes a sandlot where Japanese kids play baseball, a number of government buildings (some destroyed), the Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace, the green algae-covered Imperial moat. 'For the general, the traffic lights are always green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: One or Many? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...current trend continues," Reynolds declared, some form of boost in board rates will become necessary. As an example of the conditions which led to his prediction, Reynolds pointed to the current strike of moat-packing workers, which he thought might end in a rise in meat prices following a possible wage increase for the striking workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Board Rates May Jump Next Term | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...strong keep which could not be breached, that its 53 convention delegates were loyal to their liege lord. But last week Bob Taft found himself with his back to his own portcullis, fighting for his political life. Minnesota's Harold Stassen had somehow managed to get across the moat and was threatening to kidnap the faithful henchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Battle of Ohio | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...burgomaster and several councilors from the windows into the streets where they were immediately killed by the crowd. On May 23, 1618, two royal councilors, Czech Catholics, and the secretary of the royal council, were thrown from the windows of the council room of the Hradcany into the moat 50 feet below. Not one of the three was killed by the fall. This defenestration was the beginning of the Thirty Years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Hunted | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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