Word: perching
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Greer Garson, perched on a rock for some moviemaking, was knocked off her perch by an outsize wave and carried 30 feet out into Monterey Bay. Promptly Vincent Sallecito, a sardine fisherman acting as an extra, waded in, carried her out. Miss Garson was taken to a hospital with cuts, bruises, and a sprained back. The fisherman was taken over by the press. Said he: it was like "fishing a slippery sardine out of a bucket." He warmed to his subject: "I've often dreamed of myself clasping Greer Garson in my arms, but I never thought I would...
...first jeep ever to climb those dizzy mountain passes, where the villages perch on pinnacles and figs grow in the high valleys and the king's harem more than pays for itself, by sewing uniforms for the royal army. Harlan B. Clark (born 33 years ago in Brookfield, Ohio) was in the jeep. He and the jeep together meant that no land-not even Yemen (see map) -could henceforth be isolated from...
...wondering about owls. He wondered whether the owl was really such a traditionally wise old bird, whether it could find its way home in the dark-whether, in fact, it was all it was cracked up to be. Dr. Dice built a light-tight "reaction room." There was a perch near the top and a dim, adjustable light. He put a dead mouse on the sand-covered floor, shut an owl inside, and waited for results...
...airplane still cannot perch on a wire like a bird, but it can hang beneath a wire like a right-side-up bat. The Army now has a "portable airport" which enables a light observation plane to land and take off from a cable...
...1860s, one Will F. Empey had a perch atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, there watched the comings & goings of sailing ships. The Guide, the broadsheet he got out to list each sailing, came to be the bible of West Coast seamen, called itself the oldest shipping paper in the U.S. The wartime ban on publishing ship movements should have been enough to put it out of business...