Word: perch
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...region usually neglected by commercial fishermen, swarm with great schools of hake. Often the giant net has caught them at the rate of a ton a minute. Pacific hake bring a low price because they are used to make fish meal, but the net has also caught ocean perch and other food fish. The bureau is looking forward to a time when fleets of supernets will comb the neglected mid-waters of the North Pacific, gulping shiploads of fish that are now almost untroubled by fishermen...
...climbing back to his nonpartisan perch, Lyndon waxed spiritual. "We know not what may be God's will," he said. "But his course is to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly. I would like to feel, as I leave this room and return to the lonely acres that are surrounded by a big, black iron fence, that whatever I do, wherever I go, wherever my decision may lead us, I will have your prayers and your support...
Cambridge police detectives are investigating the theft of the Straus Trophy, which disappeared from its perch in the Dunster House dining hall early in April...
...sunny Miami Beach morning seemed perfect for a swim. But from his lookout perch, Lifeguard Al Moore spotted some purplish blobs-Portuguese men-of-war were drifting shoreward. Moore chalked up a warning on a big blackboard at the Biltmore Terrace Hotel: "Danger-No Ocean Bathing Today...
Named to the hazardous perch of Ibis was Daniel R. Shulman '65-6, of Eliot House and Westport, Conn. Peter W. Johnson '66 of Eliot House and Wilton, Conn., will serve as Narthex...