Word: perche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mount Horrid is an excellent baptism. In six-tenths of a mile, the trail rises sharply 600 ft. We were out of breath halfway up, and I thought my heart was about to pound out of my chest. At 2,800 ft., the trail levels off on a rocky perch called Mount Horrid Cliff. The rock wall drops straight down 500 ft. When the sky cleared, we could see the Adirondacks 50 miles to the west and New Hampshire 40 miles to the east...
...School class, in morning coat and striped pants before the Supreme Court, or in dungarees and sweater in the garden of his suburban home in Wayland, 20 miles west of Boston, Cox combines youthful energy with the deliberateness of the scholar suggested by the half-moon glasses that perch on the tip of his nose...
...look at you with lopsided little smiles and say "Oh, well," making it sound like an amen to doomsday. Even their answers end with question marks. They move around a lot-New York to California, job to job, man to man. But wherever they are, they seem to perch on an invisible staircase, spying upon the grownups' party below...
...Harvard tennis team, setting sites on a second-place perch in Eastern intercollegiate rankings, powered past a well-trained Dartmouth squad, 7-2, last Saturday...
...28th Parliament with the confident, almost imperious air of a ringmaster. But as he faced a new Parliament last week, with his Liberal Party stripped of its fat majority by the October election, Trudeau was tiptoeing on a tightrope. Waiting in the wings, eager to bump him off his perch and form a new government, stood the Progressive Conservative Party, which has only two fewer seats than Trudeau's Liberals. Trudeau is still aloft, and could remain there for months-or he could topple in a matter of days or weeks. It depends less on his ability to withstand...