Word: perching
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...Palestinian terror groups. The campaign against the Jenin-based terrorists has, at the same time, presented all the dilemmas of urban warfare. House-to-house fighting is the bloodiest kind of battle, disliked by all armies. An advancing force cannot see its adversary. Every window is a sniper's perch. Alleyways and streets lead to dead ends. The adversary may be disguised in civilian dress. And disabling the trip wires of booby-trapped doors and windows is a slow process that leaves a detachment in the open street, exposed to hostile fire...
...Blow, Kennedy was obsessed with tabloid stories about himself but laughed off the ones that were wildly off base. He was sympathetic to a President--Bill Clinton--who he felt was being lambasted for his private life, and unsympathetic to Clinton's wife, who he believed was exploiting her perch as First Lady to run for office. All in all, this doesn't feel like a dishonest book (as some will charge) so much as it feels like an ever-so-carefully calculated one. --By Richard Stengel
...When he slipped back into power, the normally cocksure Ch?vez seemed humbled by the experience of momentarily losing his perch. "Let us hope that all the events that happened lead to the reconciliation and reunification of Venezuelans," he told the nation...
...These days, the marble-tiled veranda is the perch of choice for whiling away an afternoon in pseudo-Victorian splendor. Inside the grand four-story colonial building, the sweeping staircase and threadbare red carpet bear witness to a glittering past and can coax out the romantic in anyone. There are more luxurious hotels in the capital, sure, but do any of them set out birdbaths for a resident colony of sparrows...
Harvard takes a tremendous losing streak into the playoffs. The Crimson is 2-8-1 since the start of February, having fallen from its perch atop the ECAC and out of the national rankings...