Word: moat
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...place is dank, dismal, depressing. Stacks of grey, fungus-covered piling loom like ghostly sentries, a huge, muddy filled-in ditch resembles the caved-in moat of a deserted castle. A few workmen slowly dismantle a partly built railroad; now & then a grey-clad Louisiana State patrolman plods his lonely beat...
...from His Imperial Majesty Hirohito-one of the few informal remarks an Occidental has ever heard from the Emperor of Japan. One day in 1934 Ambassador Grew took Sambo walking outside Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Sambo skidded and fell 30 feet into the sluggish water of the medieval moat that surrounds the palace walls. Japanese bystanders rescued the dog. The Tokyo press featured the incident. A few days later Ambassador Grew had an audience with the Emperor on matters of state. Like all such audiences, it was an affair of iron ceremony in which the Emperor's elevated...
Daring Old Man on Fleeing Trapeze. One night the General is supposed to have let himself down on the rope. It was too short. He (a 63-year-old) climbed up again, wove some more, later let himself down again all 60 feet to the moat. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he spent eleven days on obscure roads and railroads leading to Switzerland, Occupied France and Vichy. His closest call came when the Gestapo searched a train on which he was talking with a German officer. He got the German into such a hot argument that the Gestapo...
...could take a bite of sweetmeats, and he was allowed enough extra sake to make the New Order race through his tight little veins. He could stand in the open places and shout banzai for General Yamashita until he was froggy. He could go to the plaza by the moat and watch, with a tingle in his buttocks, as The Emperor himself rode out on his charger White Snow, showing his unbearably beautiful self to the bowing thousands. He could meander into Hibiya Park and listen to the public gloating...
...Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...