Word: perched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna's most magnificent squares-the Heldenplatz (Square of Heroes), with its huge statues-is now the front yard of the Russian headquarters. Russian soldiers perch like drab birds on the base of Prinz Eugen's statue and little Russian boys in dark blue school uniforms fire slingshots at passersby. When Vienna's bluish-green dusk settles over the square and forms a backdrop for the lighted clock in the Rathaus tower, and the lilac smells especially sweet, a few moments of real peace descend. Then the Russians turn on their loudspeakers, which blare hit tunes...
Year after year, Gordon Richards was a big winner, earning up to $120,000 a season. He got extra speed out of a horse by breaking fast from the post and being a master horse-handler all the way to the finish line. Unlike U.S. jockeys, who perch crablike on a horse's withers. Richards sits his horse with longer stirrups. When he uses the whip, which is seldom, he lays it on the horse near the shoulder, as English riders do. Last week, at 43, he won his 3,261st race, and that made him officially the world...
...printer and moved into a tiny stone room high up in the cathedral's east tower. There he installed a little stove, a rickety brass bed, an altar decorated with winged cherubs. There he has lived ever since, among the pigeons, and the owls which perch on the parapets after dark...
...Lower retail prices and high consumption might ease some of the headaches of New England's fish industry. Sixteen Gloucester fish firms have already embarked on an advertising program to prod housewives in ten cities in the Midwest, South and East to eat more rosefish (other names: red perch, ocean perch, redfish...
Neutra has done as much as any modern architect to prove that glass, steel and concrete are practical, if not cosy. His wide, white houses perch perkily on the hills around Los Angeles where he lives, and they alter more distant landscapes too. He is versatile enough to have designed both a moated desert mansion for Movie Director Josef von Sternberg and an elaborate system of low-cost schools and hospitals for Puerto Rico. Neutra's buildings are pondered and imitated (especially in technical details of construction) by architects around the world. Says noted French Architect Marcel Lods...