Word: perches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, a storyteller was somebody who sat cross-legged on a classroom floor with a copy of The Brothers Grimm, locked in a losing battle with the attention span of first-graders. Under the ceiling fans in Rockport, 404 adults perch on folding wooden chairs for 12½ hours, charmed by every possible kind of story from every possible kind of storyteller...
...National Aquarium. Once doomed to flounder, it received $400,000 and a new perch at the National...
...devoting more time to the birdbrains in my comic strip Shoe. I would like to devote less time to the birdbrains on the national and international stages." So said Jeff MacNelly, 33, last week as he announced that he was giving up regular political cartooning. From his editorial-page perch at the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, MacNelly had drawn and quartered Washington wildlife through eleven years and four Administrations. His winsome wit and goofily graceful draftsmanship had won him two Pulitzer prizes and syndication in 450 newspapers. But it seemed that the wag had tailed the dogged daily routine...
...intensive care unit, given a blood transfusion and taken to the ninth-floor surgical clinic. As he was being moved into surgery, the Pope, fully conscious, posed to a male nurse the question that recurs with such dreadful frequency amid the mindless violence that grips the world: "Perchè l'hanno fatto [Why did they do it]?" John Paul was not hinting that he had seen more than one would-be assassin but simply wondering at the madness of them...
Apparently, Nahigian saw things the same way, because he bolted from his perch in the visitors dugout to jaw it out with Chicarelli. The conversation continued until the arbiter bounced Nahigian, making Wark manager and Chuck Marshall acting manager while Wark caught...