Word: perched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas, the creation of many large dams (Possum Kingdom, Buchanan and Ford) have produced fresh fishing areas well stocked with sporty perch and bass...
...ground has been broken, and the foundations are being laid by the War Manpower Commission for complete mobilization of manpower. This must naturally include the Negro. But whether this is a permanent advance or only a temporary perch "for the duration" will depend upon the efficiency that Negroes show in their jobs, the extent to which they find and master training at skilled trades, and the readiness of employers to evaluate American workers on a basis not of their color, but of their ability. It will depend, also, upon whether organized labor learns the lesson that the white worker will...
Stolz, a stylish young boxer, was rated the No. 1 challenger for Angott's crown. But the Beau, in his first appearance as a Garden headliner, punched him off his perch. After seven rounds of piston-like pounding reminiscent of Henry Armstrong's famed windmill attack, Stolz's left eye was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the bout, awarded a technical knockout to the little brown upstart...
...foot flagpole near Washington, up out of limbo shinnied the Daffy Decade's champion flagpole sitter, Aloysius Anthony ("Shipwreck") Kelly (see cut), who settled himself for a four-day perch, said he was going to try to get into the Navy when he came down. Durable old Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfmger, 74 (see cut), spectacular Yale football guard of the '90s, wheeled out the high-wheeled bike he had ridden in his youth, unsentimentally handed it over to scrap collectors. Oil-rationed citizens all over the nation worried about the winter, but in long-limbed Cinemactress Loretta Young...
...usually staid and cynical press box went completely mad when Gordy Lyle caught Jack Comeford's pass . . . Vern Miller, last year's left tackle and now a columnist on the Boston Globe, was so excited that he nearly fell off his perch which was precarious at best...