Word: perched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goats of the Year were Alexander Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Alvanley Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. * Sample quote of 1946: "The American eagle sits on his perch, a large strong bird with formidable beak and claws. There he sits, motionless, and Mr. Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast...
Tyrone, the level-headed old work cat, jumped up on his perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got funny before he went to work. Dolly loafed in the chute...
...Tech of last Friday, there were such phrases as "Is the Harvard Crimson so bound up in national politics that it cannot descend from its lofty perch to meddle in petty school affairs?" and "The Tech will carry the battle to the very halls of the State Legislature and will pursue this cause until cause until definite action has been taken...
Miss Hayes makes the most of her one-woman show. Torching a custom-built Rodgers-Hammerstein number, 'I Haven't Got a Worry in the World,' or toasting everyone in sight from a tectering perch atop three bar stools (sample: "May all your troubles be little ones and may all your little ones be yours"), she renders choice Loos-isms classic. Her love scene under the table with Louis Jean Heydt, staged to the exactly appropriate subdued degree, is something you are not likely to forget...
...North Atlantic is chock-full of weather and crisscrossed by weather-sensitive airplanes, but islands for weathermen to perch on are few and far between. Last week, in London, the PICAO (Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization) decided to station 13 weather ships at places where islands ought to be. During the war, the U.S. and Britain kept 20 weather ships in operation. Now these have dwindled to four...