Word: perched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines in harmony. "Damn!" yelled a man falling from his perch to the sand. "She'll make it!" Cried MacNabb wildly to an associate: "If you weren't so ugly, I'd kiss...
Thresky, sacred ibis of a local "humor" magazine, has returned to his perch atop the Lampoon building. The footloose golden bird reappeared upon the Cambridge scene early yesterday morning and issued an immediate statement describing his travels...
After watching the spooning midwesterners every night during Harvard Summer School, Thresky began to long for a little socializing with the better type of birds. Last August 18 he spread his great wings and hoisted himself off his perch. Shaking off a cluster of admiring Cambridge pigeons and starlings, he cruised down to New Haven and propositioned the Yale Record Owl regarding a joint junket through New York. The owl was at first a bit suspicious. "To woo?" she queried...
...Ibis had departed from his perch atop the Lampoon building last summer, and persuaded the Owl to flee the Record two weeks ago. "We're nobody's birds-in-the hand," the tall bird muttered...
...apparatus like submariners at battle stations, lit by little more than the flicker of eight TV monitoring screens. Director Harry Coyle, 35, an ex-bomber pilot who, like most of the others in the mobile unit, is a veteran of TV's infancy, chain-smoked from his perch on a high stool, his eyes darting back and forth. Crammed in front of him and to his left stood screens flashing four different views of the game, plus a fifth monitor linked to another camera focused on cards bearing players' names. Above this cluster of screens hung two more...