Word: perched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubbe-otherwise, the mikes pick up the actor's footfalls. He prowls about the sets in narrow-eyed search of peeling paint. He even makes elaborate taxi tours of the entire New York area to inspect all the billboards he has paid for. Once he climbed to a high perch in Yankee Stadium to see if a panning TV camera could catch a certain outfield billboard; he concluded that the sign was out of range, so he didn't buy the space...
Captain of Grenadiers. Despite the drawbacks of involvement, Schlesinger rejects the notion that the best historian is the one who has withdrawn to a perch above the heat and passion of life. Thucydides served as a general during the Peloponnesian War. Edward Gibbon, a soldier in his youth, found the experience valuable when he wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. "The captain of Hampshire Grenadiers," Gibbon insisted, "was not useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Indeed, says Schlesinger, "until the last half of the 19th century, the great historians were, in one way or another, captains...
...Satellite Corp., Leo D Welch, 67, supervised two notable accomplishments. On the ground he launched a $200 million stock issue that was snapped up by communications companies and 190,000 space-minded investors; into the air he launched the Early Bird satellite, now relaying sound and pictures from a perch 22,300 miles over the equator. Welch, who had earlier retired as Jersey Standard's chair man, was bothered by a kidney ailment He pressed for a younger successor and last week he had his wish. Taking over the $125,000 job: courtly, cerebral James McCormack, 54, a retired...
Stephen Shaddeg watched the 1964 presidential campaign from a perch on the second rung of the Goldwater hierarcy. (He was a regional director for 11 far western states.) As the man who managed Goldwater's two successful Senatorial races, Shaddeg clearly did not like what...
Lake Erie is critically ill, and the symptoms are there for all to see. Beaches that once were gleaming with white sand are covered with smelly greenish slime. The lake's prize fish-walleyes, blue pike, yellow perch and whitefish-have all but disappeared, and the fishing fleets along with them. After surveying their sludgy waters last year, over 1,000,000 irate Ohio citizens petitioned Governor James A. Rhodes to ask for remedial action, and thousands have sent in letters. Wrote one Clevelander: "Our lake is a wastebasket for factories. It is unfit for fish to live...