Word: perched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helped by a fresh wind and a strong ground swell, the Magdalena slowly worked herself off her perch. Next morning, tugs took her in tow. As the crippled ship wallowed into the harbor, Rio stopped work. From the seawalls, from the windows of downtown office skyscrapers, all along the city's 20 miles of beaches, cariocas gaped. None anticipated the climax...
...order transferred control of the nine transports to the Army from the Maritime Commission which had operated the ships for student travel last summer. The ships all capable of carrying up to 900 passengers, were the Ernic Pyle, the Marine Jumper, Marine Carp, Marine Marlin, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch, as well as the three boats named above...
...part of its program, the Maritime Commission had slashed the wartime limit of 900 passengers for each ship to 600 and added recreational facilities. The nine ships are the Ernie Pyle, Marine Tiger, Marine Jumper, Marine Shark, Marine Carp. Marine Marlin, Marine Flasher, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch...
...exhausting election campaign. He reported on his physical condition. He weighed 173 lbs. "bedside," he told reporters. He was tanned and relaxed. Correspondent Tom Reynolds of the New Dealing Chicago Sun-Times reported: "He speaks now with tones of authority . . . confident of his mandate." From his cracker-barrel perch on the arch-Republican New York Sun, Columnist H. I. Phillips wrote reassuringly: "I think Harry's hat still fits . . . and that always in his ear he hears his mom whispering, 'Behave yourself, Harry...
...boys kick or not, the coaches, Art Valpey included, can't rest easy until Gelotte delivers the goods. Valpey wanted last Saturday's films, for instance, on the same night. So when the timekeeper waved goodbye around 4 p.m., Gelotte scrambled down from his 50-yard line press box perch, and rushed the films to a waiting local processor...