Word: perched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rock but upon special copper-bound, earth-filled piers sunk into mountaintop Lake Engolaster, 4,900 feet above sea level. Twenty-three hundred feet below, overlooking the valley, is a modernistic, three-story granite building which houses the control panels and living quarters of the operators. From its dizzy perch Radio Andorra has the strength to make itself easily heard in England, Italy and France: 200 watts of power would be enough to blow Andorrans' ears off; it usually uses 60,000* watts; may have more power in reserve...
...high-policy byplay, this Asama Maru incident was fascinating to the 512 former crew members of the scuttled German liner Columbus, who, last week, were still dawdling deliciously on San Francisco's Angel Island: exercising, playing games, eating three bulky U. S. meals per day, fishing for pogies & perch off Angel Island stringers and smoking the catch for 'tween-meal tidbits, going to one movie a week as guests of the U. S. Army across the island at Fort McDowell. Now that they might not travel in Japanese ships, as planned, the Columbus' crew's stay...
...photogenic Yardling planned to perch himself far out on the limb of some small tree in the Yard and cast appealing looks at the lady of his choice, Libby Esler '43, who had supposedly refused him a date. The climax for assembled photographers was to be the moment when the Radcliffe miss finally consented, and the lover's unique lament could be ended...