Word: perched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overhead, under a leaden sky, three flights of F9F Panther jets wheeled around the Princeton in perfect formation. Over bull horns on the flight deck came the air officer's command: "White flag, land planes." The landing signal officer, from his screened perch astern on the flight deck, guided the first plane in with two orange paddles. It sailed in, tailhook down, picked up an arresting wire and stopped. His hook released from the wire by a scurrying, green-jerseyed deck man, the pilot taxied his craft forward, folding its wings as he went. One by one, the blue...
Sunday night, under the light of a hazy full moon, the Communist enemy launched his big try for victory in Korea. For him, victory meant knocking the U.N. eagle, that had been gnawing at his manpower vitals, entirely off the South Korean perch. If he could accomplish that, hundreds of thousands of lives and mountains of equipment and supplies would be, in his view, well spent...
...ridden by "favoritism" and dominated by outsiders wielding undue influence over RFC officials. White House Aide Donald Dawson, a shrewd veteran of 18 years in Washington's bureaucratic jungle was exercising "considerable influence" over certain RFC directors and had "tried to dominate" the agency from his White House perch. But, the Senators added, "the individual named most frequently in the reports of alleged influence ... is E. Merl Young...
...diehard Nationalists prepared their last stand. Mao's army, harassed by Chiang's naval & air blockade, stood poised for an invasion. Then Stalin's North Koreans moved across the 38th parallel. In a dramatic turnabout of policy, the American eagle soared from its lackadaisical perch...
...collected only enough for a modest house: "Not so plenty money because paintings not so good." The picture that fetched the highest price ($500) shows a grey palm tree with red fruit. The caption, written by K. C. Wu, says: "This tree is very hard, like iron; beautiful birds perch on it, looking down on the clear springwater. This is a heavenly place, wthout the slightest noise to break the stillness...