Word: perche
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Apollo’s Perch...
...Bird’s Perch...
According to William H. Bossert ’59, Arnold professor of science and a former Lowell master, removing the bells from their perch in the Lowell tower would cost tens of millions of dollars and require more than a summer’s worth of renovations. “They presumably will pay for it,” he said. “Money could be raised and wouldn’t be the basis of the decision...
...deep within that concocted universe that Muhammad and Malvo slept in the early hours of Oct. 24, tucked into their blue Chevrolet Caprice with the sniper perch built into the trunk. They must have slept soundly, since they didn't hear federal agents and police creeping up on all sides, armed with submachine guns. Appropriately, they were seized in the same benign setting in which they had allegedly stalked their victims--a nondescript parking lot off a highway outside Washington. It is hard to imagine what castles of delusion came crashing down when the tactical team smashed in the windows...
...main restaurant at the National Hotel is traditionally Russian, with suckling pig, sturgeon, and pike perch in cream on the menu. The bonus: a lovely Kremlin view. (The diner with the shaved head and the well-cut suit, attended by aides and decorative young women, is a prominent figure in an ultranationalist political party...