Word: perched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limpert alludes to events of the past few years in which CRIMSON editors have borrowed Thresky from his perch and introduced him to chorus girls, College officials, and Russian delegates...
...fourteen ton affair, from its truck, and it nearly crashed to the ground anyway. All the bells were stored in a shack near Gore Hall while scaffolding was built along the sides of the tower. One winter alone was consumed in hoisting the carillon to its final perch...
...Greatest Explosion. What the corporal saw and reported from his own perch was the result of the biggest explosion ever set off by man. It happened several hundred miles away from Kwajalein, somewhere in the U.S. proving ground in the Marshall Islands. In a precautionary rehearsal of a formal test shot from an Air Force bomber that will take place sometime in the next two weeks, U.S. scientists had exploded a thermonuclear device atop a tower. The force of the blast completely surprised them...
Leading ornithologists in this country and England reported that the only metallic Ibis known to exist has been held for several years by the Lampoon, but that the bird has been mysteriously missing from its accustomed perch atop the building on Bow St. for over half a year...
...Your entertaining and enlightening footnote on the sporting interests of our Presidents [Nov. 9] could do with a little amplification in the field of halieutics. George Washington's Diary records his frequent dealings with the perch and catfish of the Potomac River. Thomas Jefferson, accompanied by his Secretary of State and successor, James Madison, traveled 300 miles by coach to fish for trout in ... Lake George. Chester Arthur knew his way to the salmon pools of New Brunswick. Grover Cleveland, an authority on black bass, wrote one of the most delightful of angling books [Fishing and Hunting Sketches...