Word: perched
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...arrived to mediate. "They wouldn't listen to me," says Abdulrazak, a cleric. "There were a few radicals among the protesters, controlling the minds of everyone else." Deputy police commander Vuttichai Hanhaboon, a Buddhist who has spent 10 years in the south, watched the events unfold from his perch on the second-floor balcony of the station. "I looked down on the crowd and thought, 'How many years will it take before these Muslims grow up?' I knew people would die. Why did they not know it and leave, like we asked them to, many times...
...wasn’t for its river perch, Newell Boathouse might resemble a cathedral. From certain angles, you can envision the building’s red and gray slate exterior cradling a congregation; the softly curved architecture of its roof serving as a shelter for a choir...
According to Bovey, the new proposal could turn half of the river from the Longfellow Bridge to the Museum of Science into a “dead zone” for indigenous fish, including the alewife and yellow perch...
...prepared an ambush near Ramadi's soccer stadium. Humvees and trucks ferry troops that way. Upon arrival, they head to the rooftops. An explosion occurs to the west, and the streets cough black smoke into the sky. The town briefly goes quiet save a few isolated shots. Pigeons perch on a rooftop aerial, cooing softly. Bitsui tries to clean the blood from his fingers. "You just hate for that to happen," says Cpl. Edward B. Wiley. "You see a kid like that, it makes you sick. But some of these people, these suicide bombers, are crazy. You never know what...
...boring; I can’t believe you like it,” he would comment, entranced with the inspirational story of Nelly Furtado’s Portuguese-English “Força,” in which a boy loses a ball on a perch high up on a building and passers-by form a human pyramid to help him reach the ball. I thought it was sappy...