Word: perched
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...muskie remains passive-aggressive, indifferent. For days he has been sliding along in his surly way, down there among the sunken, rotted logs of Elephant Lake, inhaling a perch now and then, ignoring our hors d'oeuvres tray of glittering Mepps spinners and Bush Hogs and Muskie Bug lures as gaudy as totem poles. Next, I'm going to try dynamite...
...worse, particularly the collapse of mining. More than 100,000 people once lived in this city (current pop. 35,000), and it acquired two nicknames: "the Richest Hill on Earth" (the relentless digging of Butte's copper turned it into the nation's largest Superfund site) and "the Perch of the Devil." It was where miners could rise from the underground to, as local booster Donal Moylan puts it, "fight, f___ and drink...
...always sleek creations revive the notion that form should follow function. "Just by looking at something, you should know how it works," he says. "We're stating the obvious all the time." His birdcage, for instance, has a clear plastic front and back and a light, and a wavy perch that, he insists, prevents bird carpal-tunnel syndrome. These are the kinds of things Beck knows...
...comportment may have very little to do with defining her own campaign, political observers say, and everything to do with Lazio's refusal to pin himself down. It's difficult, after all to gain any ground in a very tight race when your opponent seems perfectly happy to perch on the political fence, occasionally dangling a foot toward a position but generally letting voter perceptions wander where they may. By taking an aggressive tack, Clinton may be hoping to sway those perceptions in her favor, dropping hints of doubt about Lazio where none existed before. On the other hand...
...Walk into F-31 any Wednesday night at about 8 p.m. and prepare to be attacked. The senior trio of May H. Li, Sally E. Sadoff and Maureen K. Schad perch themselves on the crowded couches and chairs in their common room for their ritual viewing of "Dawson's Creek...