In Men and Boys, the poet records that moment when farm boys are
teetering on the edge of manhood by making little pulls on the tractor throttles and roaring the engines while their fathers visit.
For many weeks, they had been keeping track of a homeless man, whom Officer Dain had first noticed
teetering down a street in November of last year, living in a tent near Utah's Jordan River.
The Norfolk Virginia, native appeared on this March 1988 cover (shown below) sharing with readers his rocky road to success after
teetering on the edge of failure.
Nursing home margins are already razor-thin, he said, with half the profession
teetering on the brink.
DOES this column only speak to the converted or are there some readers
teetering on the brink?
Thirty years of maintaining the facade of the perfect life, despite her husband's lies and infidelity, keep Barbara
teetering on the edge of an alcoholic relapse.
A MOTORIST'S life was hanging in the balance when the car he was driving careered off a Maesteg road and ended up
teetering over a 50ft drop.
The dancers ran to the edge of the stage and stared intensely out at the audience, as if
teetering on the edge of a high precipice.
She said later: "The coach was
teetering on the brink and everyone was screaming.
"The seemingly obvious explanation for foreign investors' hesitancy," wrote the Financial Times recently, "is that Russia is still too unstable a place to do business,
teetering on the brink of political turmoil and economic crisis." Among the many concerns cited were:
