Word: moats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Demure, with downcast eyes, displaying a modesty beneath which lies tempered steel, 24-year-old Michiko Shoda last week crossed the blue moat surrounding the Imperial Palace. Behind her lay the roaring, garish city of Tokyo, with huge advertising balloons adrift above the rooftops. Ahead stretched the quiet greenery of the palace grounds, where unpaid volunteers tended the gardens. As her chauffeur-driven car passed through the tall gateway, guarded by policemen with gold chrysanthemums on their collars, Michiko was carried into the secluded "world within the moat" that will be hers next month on her marriage to Crown Prince...
...medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...
...year-old La Cabaña fortress, death has long since fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout as the bullets' impact knocks breath through his vocal...
Sitting in the rear seat of a small Toyopet car, the director of the Imperial Household Board rode last week across the moat surrounding the Imperial Palace and was whisked along Tokyo's streets to the Gotanda district. The car drew up before the high-gabled, ten-room house of Hidesaburo Shoda, president of the Nis-shin Flour Milling Co., the largest in Japan...
...satisfying as is the cloud in which this kind of generalization leaves its author, to stress in might be to gloss over what Curleyism meant to Boston. Here perhaps the most articulate of local commentators is Louis Lyons. "Curleyism," he said a week ago, "surrounded Boston like a moat for a generation, putting a chasm between city and suburbs with the most bitter refusal to entertain any cooperation with the city. It was a compound tragedy of Boston that it was saddled with Curleyism in the period of its most severe economic pinch, as capital of the region that...