Word: perched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observers below last saw him alive through the clouds, he was "clearly visible in his fire-engine red tricot, his face turned upward to the skies, his arms outstretched as though asking the heavens for a miracle." In the dark of the night he was swept from his perch and died entangled in his rope against the face of the cliff...
...Barn. Pekin, the home of Bird Farm Sausage, Bourbon Supreme and Olt's Duck Calls, was a pleasant place for boys. They played "stink base," "run, sheep, run," football and marbles, fished for crappies and perch in the river. The block on which the Dirksen house stood was rimmed with bushy maple trees, and Tom Dirksen recalls that "you could climb up in one tree and go all the way around the block without touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says...
...Hong Kong, even if a man sleeps on the street-and 15,000 do each night- there is work enough to buy at least some food. The unskilled refugees find jobs paying $1 a day as ditchdiggers, coolies, factory sweepers, stevedores. Children perch on street corners putting together plastic flowers for the U.S. market. Young mothers, with babies strapped to their backs, haul water up the mountainside...
...have gathered quite a momentum, and his little legs chugged hurriedly through it, Bloomlike. "I will show up him--him with the jacket like Ali Ahmed's. . . . My trousers are in danger, and as a direct social consequence, so must be I... I am eagle, flying to a quaint perch in Weld Hall... I had better try to step." A red light leomed in front of the Indian. He had arrived at Broadway. He could not stop. Two MTA busses and a University truck were bearing down or Karandas, but his path remained unaltered. With a low moan, he charged...
...maze; NASA's floating, jewel-like weather satellites and full-size space-capsule mock-up (complete with a silver-suited astronaut); the Mexican Pavilion with walls of lava cubes and a startling, exquisitely crafted assemblage by Manuel Felguerez; a fashion pavilion where haughty Vogue models perch on concrete lily pads in a 5,000-gallon perfumed pool. But those who take even samplings at the fair's food spots will probably be too stuffed to get to most of the exhibits...