Word: perched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Ibis is no chicken," cracked La Farge, carrying the winged creature back to his perch on the Lampoon's Kaiser Wilhelm helmet cupola...
Interest focused quickly on the world-renowned Ibis, which had returned to its perch on Wednesday. When dawn broke over the Cambridge skyline, as mysteriously as it had reappeared, the Ibis was gone...
...Last Perch. Dubček's men warned the people against going too far too fast with liberalization. Perhaps mindful of the 20 Russian divisions poised across the border in East Germany, even the most outspoken reformers stopped short of suggesting any break with the Soviet Union. The press did, however, give surprisingly frank coverage of last week's riots in Poland, which were partly sparked by the events in Czechoslovakia...
...discuss more "personnel changes." As for Novotny, he continued to tour factories, where he no doubt tried to win worker support by predicting unemployment, inflation and other hardships from Dubcek's reforms. It seemed clear, however, that the party was about to nudge Novotný off his last perch in the government. Already three men were mentioned to succeed him as President: Minister of Forestry Josef Smrkovsky, 61, General Ludvik Svoboda, 61, and Deputy Prime Minister Oldřich Černik, 46. fA are liberals of the Dubček stripe...
...backspin. And sure enough, the ball hit beyond the pin and rolled back, back-whoops, too far. When he got to the par-five 18th hole, Nicklaus was four strokes behind, so he audaciously decided to go for an eagle. His second shot landed on an impossible rock perch at the top of a sheer drop down to the ocean. A forehanded ABC crewman was in the right place with a hand-held camera to watch him agonizingly line up and then blow his desperation third shot-and with it any chance for the top prize...