Word: perched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first of the Queen's children to visit the spot and keep the traditional all-night vigil for game, Anne protested that she could not photograph a colony of wart hogs below: she was blocked by photographers waiting to photograph her. Brother Charles, who landed a 62-lb. perch in Kenya's Lake Rudolf before setting off on a four-day camel safari in the wild northeast, also had a complaint about the cameramen. "Watch it!" he snapped when one of them discarded some film cartons. "I hope you are not going to leave that litter around...
...Election. In the election, Walter's Progressive Labor Movement picked up 14 seats in Parliament, leaving only three for Bird's Antigua Labor Party. In the race in St. Johns, Papa even lost his own private perch to Walter's younger brother...
...Same Perch. If nothing else, however, Nixon earned high grades at home-for the merits of his proposals and for his political skill in presenting them. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield quickly backed the plan; Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, an eloquent critic of the war and a possible challenger to Nixon in 1972, called it "welcome and serious." Said Idaho Democrat Frank Church: "The President has joined us. He is now on the same perch with the doves. So what is there to argue about? We've won this argument. Now we have to keep withdrawal...
Governor Kirk, who with Gurney hatched the scheme to oust Cramer from his power perch in the state party, will not have the time or the inclination to resume the feud. The flamboyant Kirk will be fully occupied in trying to win a second four-year term for himself. To Kirk's consternation, Millionaire Druggist Jack Eckerd, an ardent Nixon supporter whose ideological bent is fully as conservative as Kirk's, got enough votes to compel a runoff. In Florida, incumbents who fail to win renomination by getting the necessary 50% of the initial primary vote usually lose...
...driver's lonely perch high above the highway gives him a special perspective; he can spot traffic patterns developing ahead more readily than the car-bound motorist. He scorns the tourists who dart in and out of traffic. Independent trucking operators pose another hazard, for they often overload their rigs and use pep pills to stay awake on long hauls, which can make them dangerously overtired on the road. The men driving for the big companies superstitiously shy away from rigs that they know have been rebuilt after a wreck. The road limits a man's vision...