Word: perching
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...years ago it rose near the site of a Roman fort on the barbarian frontier. Three hundred years ago it looked out on the Turkish horde sweeping in from the East. During the siege of 1683, Vienna's resolute commander Count Ernst Riidiger Starhemberg climbed to the highest perch in the Gothic steeple, fired rockets of distress, at last spied the armies of Poland's Jan Sobieski and other allies marching to the city's relief. The Turks were beaten back, and the bells of St. Stephen's intoned free and joyous thanks...
...that if I should go into the water, I would not be entangled in the gear." The moon was full by then and "traveling swiftly on the very edge of the waves," Joseph recalled. "It was like a fairy tale." As the waves came even closer to his perch, Joseph dumped the last of his sand ballast and busied himself cutting up his trail rope to throw that out piece by piece. Soon after he heard the cries of sea gulls and looked down to see the lights of beachside restaurants and hotels. A woman was walking down a long...
...wall of Chicago Stock Exchange President James Day's office hangs a two-inch perch mounted on a tarpon-sized plank, the gift of friends lampooning a luckless fishing trip. But last week ardent Fisherman Day landed a tarpon of sorts. After three years of angling, he hooked it with representatives of the Cleveland, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchanges. They agreed to merge their exchanges into one big Midwest Stock Exchange, which will be exceeded in size only by the New York Stock Exchange and the Curb Exchange...
...would cost nearly $1,000 to dismantle it, about $500 to cart it away from its perch on a midtown Manhattan street corner, another $4,500 to put it up somewhere else. Alfred Birnbaum, scraping along on his $105-a-month G.I. benefits while he studies optometry, just didn't have that kind of money. To make matters worse, it was costing $50 rent for every day the house remained on the parking lot, where it had been raffled away (at a loss) by the American Women's Voluntary Services...
Strapped to a perch atop the radiator of one of the jeeps was a man with a long wooden lance. As the jeep caught up, he rammed the lance against the bull's flank, knocking him hoof over hide. All eyes in the jeeps were trained on the black bull, intent on his slightest move...