Word: moats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They said on the 27th of March last that it couldn't be done, and it did seem impossible: to level and fill 16 acres of what had once been a salt marsh, dig a moat, lay foundation piles and piers, erect a huge theatre of pioneering design, and prepare a production in time for a July 9 opening...
Surrounded by a moat, the project will offer plenty of free parking space, and will also, being located near the Charles River, be accessible by boat from down-town Boston...
...Agravaine (Jane White) is a jawing virago for whom possession is nine-tenths of motherhood's law. It begins to look as if their son, poor fretful Prince Dauntless (Joe Bova), will always be mama's boy. And then one day Princess Winnifred (Carol Burnett) swims the moat. Winnifred ("My friends call me 'Fred' ") rescues Dauntless from his possessive mother, but only after Fred's friends have built up the queen's under-the-mattress pea with a few extra props (a mandolin, a spiked orb, a lobster...
...Moats & Thugs. A windfall came Sooi's way: one of his indignant tenants grumpily moved away. Sooi invited one Jacob Moerland down from The Hague to open a casino in the vacant house, for the benefit of Dutchmen who are not allowed to gamble in their own country. Later, an ambitious Dutchman named Herman Bernhard showed up, opened a competing Benelux Casino complete with free drinks, a parking lot and twelve croupiers. By 1954, five casinos were operating-though not always smoothly. At one point, Bernhard had a moat dug around Moerland's Woodside Club to prevent customers...
...death row of Havana's gloomy Cabana Fortress, brought out three former policemen, all convicted in military courts on charges of murder. A short ride in a bus and a jeep brought Marks, the guards, a priest and the prisoners to within 200 feet of an old moat, 20 feet deep and surrounded on three sides by high stone walls. A six-man firing squad waited on a spot worn bare of grass...