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...Bath and Wells is one of Britain's oldest sees (founded 909), has one of the country's most perfect cathedrals. The Bishop's Palace is famous for its bastioned wall and a moat where the swans tug at the drawbridge rope as a hint that they want...
...stables to feed sugar to the horses while they were being curried. He brought her boxes of Page & Shaw chocolates, got front seats for the Admiral Dewey Parade, took her to see Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle. He told her that all their magnificent house needed was a moat and a drawbridge, and he was going to put them...
...there were factors weighing heavily in Nazi Germany's favor. What Adolf Hitler could not do by land to stop the Allies' march toward Europe's borders, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, CINC of the German Navy, was working hard to do by sea in the Atlantic moat where the first defense of Europe...
...mountain behind the house. Dressed only in his nightshirt and without his false teeth, he tried to leave by a side door. It was locked. He and two of his men had to climb a ten-foot wall. On top of it the Generalissimo slipped and fell into the moat outside, a drop of 30 feet. For three minutes he could not move. Then a number of bodyguards helped him up the mountain. The Generalissimo fell into a cave that was hidden by thorny shrubs, and lay there, exhausted. Later soldiers found him. "Let us fire a shot," said...
...which may easily engulf either adversary. But beyond that it is a geographic key. If the U.S. loses Guadalcanal, the Japanese can press on with relative ease, take the whole chain of islands down through the New Hebrides to New Caledonia (see map), and then have only the narrow moat of the Coral Sea between them and Australia. But if the U.S. holds Guadalcanal, and can force its way up the chain as far as Rabaul, then the Allies will have a series of bases from which to build a major offensive against the Japs...