Word: perched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first jeep ever to climb those dizzy mountain passes, where the villages perch on pinnacles and figs grow in the high valleys and the king's harem more than pays for itself, by sewing uniforms for the royal army. Harlan B. Clark (born 33 years ago in Brookfield, Ohio) was in the jeep. He and the jeep together meant that no land-not even Yemen (see map) -could henceforth be isolated from...
...wondering about owls. He wondered whether the owl was really such a traditionally wise old bird, whether it could find its way home in the dark-whether, in fact, it was all it was cracked up to be. Dr. Dice built a light-tight "reaction room." There was a perch near the top and a dim, adjustable light. He put a dead mouse on the sand-covered floor, shut an owl inside, and waited for results...
...airplane still cannot perch on a wire like a bird, but it can hang beneath a wire like a right-side-up bat. The Army now has a "portable airport" which enables a light observation plane to land and take off from a cable...
...1860s, one Will F. Empey had a perch atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, there watched the comings & goings of sailing ships. The Guide, the broadsheet he got out to list each sailing, came to be the bible of West Coast seamen, called itself the oldest shipping paper in the U.S. The wartime ban on publishing ship movements should have been enough to put it out of business...
Last week, at San Francisco's M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, his home town got a look at 64 deftly slapdash Dong watercolors. One standout was a gay gull's-eye view of San Francisco's war-crowded harbor (see cut). To get a proper perch to paint it from, Dong pitched a pup tent dizzily atop the Bay Bridge. It was a long way up from the narrow obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown, where he began...