Word: perche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forbidding configuration, the forward end of the woolly bear caterpillar is ominously darker this season. For legions of hunters, woodsmen and students of weather arcana, the evidence is plain-a harsh winter lies ahead. The omens, they warn, are all but unanimous: animal fur is thicker, the perch are running deeper, and the pine tree is unusually laden with seeds. Linwood Rideout of Bowdoinham, Me., a hunting guide for 40 years, gauges the se verity of the winter to come by the relative whiteness of a wild goose's breastbone after the bird has been roasted and eaten...
...abstract character of a landscape assembled from prototypes. There is, for example, no way of reading Traveler Looking over the Sea of Fog (circa 1818) as a real scene; with his wind-blown hair and green velvet suit, Friedrich's Byronic wanderer is as incongruous on his craggy perch as a Magritte businessman. He is, instead, that convention of a Friedrich landscape, the awe-struck witness...
...Harvard Lampoon Friday recovered its bronze mascot, a three-foot-tall Ibis, after what a Lampoon spokesman called a police stakeout in Saugus. The bird was stolen almost a year ago from its rooftop perch on the Lampoon Castle...
...worker in Los Angeles when Earl was born. The elder Warren joined the American Railway Union and was blacklisted in 1894 when he went on strike. He moved the family to Bakersfield, where he got a job and began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage clarinet player, he joined the musicians' union and also worked as a freight-yard helper and truck driver...
...spirit of the place is insistent with the presence of money. Set in feudal splendour cool and moist as the Snow Queen's summer palace in its perch upon the sea, it is redolent with sensual pleasure. It is also a monumental mistake built as if toward some transcendental point, and peaking in denial of possibilities even as it marks the exhaustion of America as a land still to be settled...