Word: perched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commander, Bastogne Veteran Major General Thomas L. Sherburne Jr., receive from Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker and Army Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor the blue-and-red standards of the famous "Screaming Eagles"-the 101st Airborne Division of World War II. In front of the reviewing stand perched a bald eagle, hastily acquired from a South Carolina zoo. Unused to the rocket blast and the plane roar, it had battered itself against its cage all day. Now, as the troops massed, the bands blared, and the colors were handed over, it rested hooded and bound on its perch...
...idea functions most impressively at Versailles. At dusk, some 2,000 to 6,000 visitors perch quietly on steel folding chairs on the vast graveled terrace, listening to the piquant yet noble strains of an orchestral prelude, the work of Jacques Ibert, distinguished French composer (Ports of Call) and former manager of the Paris Opéra. "Here intrigues are woven and romance prevails," proclaims a voice which seems to come from the heart of the chateau itself (it is the recorded voice of Charles Boyer, via 28 loudspeakers, speaking a text by André Maurois). "Here all France...
...Illinois all summer the hot winds of scandal have blown hard at the Republican state administration. The blast blew Orville E. Hodge (TIME, July 30 et ante) from his perch as Republican state auditor and landed him a 12-to-15-year sentence in the state penitentiary for stealing more than $1,000,000 from the treasury through a warrant (state check) cashing dodge. Democratic leaders joyfully looked forward to using the Hodge case in their campaign to defeat Republican Governor William G. Stratton. Then, suddenly, the wind changed...
...gilded-aluminum columned, concrete-and-marble chancery. Its designer: Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone, a co-designer of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and architect for Panama's superdeluxe, 300-room El Panama Hotel. When it is completed in early 1958, it will perch over a null lagoon and glitter in the hot Indian sun like a maharaja's expensive present...
Except in the South, carnies know no racial discrimination. The shows that do discriminate, or tolerate "dunk-a-boy" concessions (in which a Negro boy sits on a perch that drops him into water if a customer hits a target with a ball), are considered "dirty." A "clean" show is not necessarily one that has no naked dancing girls-it is simply a show that gives its customers what it promises...