Word: perche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week a woman admirer sent him a nonskid perch made of sandpaper...
...Diet of Japan will gather this week for an Extraordinary Session-perhaps the most momentous since the Extraordinary Diet that met in the month before Pearl Harbor. A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers. There, in lonely, myopic state, will perch the Emperor Hirohito. The honorable members, and the uniformed guards who see that representatives do not fall asleep, will bow their heads docilely as the Son of Heaven, flanked by Princes of the Blood, declares their meeting open...
...side of a palm frond; then glues the eggs to the nest. To hatch the eggs, the parent birds (taking turns) grip the back of the nest with their feet, nestle themselves against the eggs. When the young hatch, their parents help them to hold their perilous perch until they are ready...
Several Congressmen sitting just below the sailor scuttled for safety, apparently afraid he was going to jump. The voice of the sailor cut across the hum: "I am a man from the service. Do I have the floor?" Then, before he was pulled from his perch, he shouted: "I speak for the thousands who cannot be here. Why does a man have to pay tribute for the right to vote? Why should a man be taxed to vote when he can fight without paying...
Forester's ship is the 5,000-ton light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...