Word: perched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge police detectives are investigating the theft of the Straus Trophy, which disappeared from its perch in the Dunster House dining hall early in April...
...sunny Miami Beach morning seemed perfect for a swim. But from his lookout perch, Lifeguard Al Moore spotted some purplish blobs-Portuguese men-of-war were drifting shoreward. Moore chalked up a warning on a big blackboard at the Biltmore Terrace Hotel: "Danger-No Ocean Bathing Today...
Named to the hazardous perch of Ibis was Daniel R. Shulman '65-6, of Eliot House and Westport, Conn. Peter W. Johnson '66 of Eliot House and Wilton, Conn., will serve as Narthex...
When Sorbonne students spot an empty lecture hall, they rush in like beggars after a tycoon's cigar butt. Lucky ones perch on worn wooden benches, using their laps for desks; others stand or squat in the aisles. The rooms smell; the lighting is dim. The typical Sorbonne lecture hall holds only half the students enrolled in a course. Sitting in a remote stairwell just within earshot of the podium, one girl recently sighed: "The other day I raised my head and actually saw the professor...
...This time the two wound up their nip-tucking session at a West Side Manhattan joint. 'Long about 2 a.m. "Sinat" suddenly awarded his 240-lb. pal a few friendly shoulder smacks and a greeting: "Hi ya, Blub." Silence. Then, slowly, The Blub toppled backwards off his perch. "I don't really remember what happened," confesses Toots. But his right wrist broke the fall, then broke itself. Though plastered into a cast for six weeks (complete with evening scarf sling), Toots stiffly states: "Booze is beautiful-with either hand...