Word: perched
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This was the year that the Crimson hoped to reclaim its perch atop the top of collegiate squash—both as a team and with individual accolades. But a week after No. 1 Trinity beat Harvard, 7-2, to end any dreams the Crimson had of knocking off the Bantams for the first time in nearly seven years, Harvard’s disappointment only grew at the CSA Individual Championships held at Dartmouth...
...Dean, about to become the new leader of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), will occupy a special perch last held by Haley Barbour, the current governor of Mississippi and Republican chairman following Bill Clinton’s first presidential victory. A wily lobbyist, Reagan adviser and honeysuckle political hit-man, Barbour rose to the challenge of a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and became an indispensable part of setting the winning 1993 and 1994 GOP strategy of hardline anti-Clinton opposition...
...quietly significant move, the post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs may go to a diplomat, David Welch, rather than to a neocon (although it is expected that the ever present Elliot Abrams will have a hand in this area from his perch at the National Security Council). The neoconservative lockout at State has led to speculation that the U.N. post might be thrown to them as a sop. The rumor last week was Paul Wolfowitz; the rumor the week before was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton. There is a tradition of neoconservative eloquence...
Reaching the barred window near the front door, Bellavia tells two soldiers to perch by the house corner and watch for insurgents trying to leap out the side window. He looks at Staff Sergeant Scott Lawson and says, "You're f______ coming. Give suppressive fire at 45 degrees." Bellavia and Lawson step nervously into the house. From the living room, Bellavia rounds the corner into the hallway. The insurgents are still alive. Their AK-47s fire. Bellavia fires back, killing them both. "Two f_____s down," he says...
...Overrated,” the Harvard student section jeered at BC’s skaters as the latter group milled about in frustration as their chances and perch atop the national rankings slipped away...