Word: perched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poles Apart. In Grand Rapids, after 22 days on high, flagpole sitter Marshall Jacobs climbed down from his perch several weeks ahead of schedule, explained that he wanted to talk to his bride, had been unable to get a phone...
...Frank Buchman, sexagenarian Oxford Group leader who returned to England last spring after seven years' absence, was now reported sitting on an Alp. The perch: Switzerland's sky-high Caux. The shelter: a former luxury hotel. Buchmanites had bought it and were aswarm there for a big postwar drive. Reported one of them happily: "The people of the neighborhood seem pleased...
...Eagle on His Perch. Next day, Winston Churchill rose not to reply but to agree. He warmly praised Bevin's conduct of foreign affairs (to Ernie's gruff embarrassment). Churchill scored Soviet propaganda, according to which "all oppression from the left is progression, all resistance from the right is reactionary. . . ." Grimly he warned: "The idea of keeping scores of millions of people hanging about in subhuman state between earth and hell until they are worn down to slave conditions and accept Communism or die off will only breed moral pestilence and probably...
Churchill paid his tribute to the U.S. in a full-flavored Churchillian image: "The American eagle sits on his perch, a large strong bird with formidable beak and claws. . . . 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 of the eagle...
Greer Garson, perched on a rock for some moviemaking, was knocked off her perch by an outsize wave and carried 30 feet out into Monterey Bay. Promptly Vincent Sallecito, a sardine fisherman acting as an extra, waded in, carried her out. Miss Garson was taken to a hospital with cuts, bruises, and a sprained back. The fisherman was taken over by the press. Said he: it was like "fishing a slippery sardine out of a bucket." He warmed to his subject: "I've often dreamed of myself clasping Greer Garson in my arms, but I never thought I would...