Word: prey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jebsen, these are reasons to leave American troops in El Salvador. He says that without American support the government that is providing all this stability would collapse. He suggests that this would result in "Marxist domination" of El Salvador. In the first place, this is an example of falling prey to the standard right wing flaw of seeing all Socialist groups as monolithic supporters of the Kremlin. Governments usually do not turn to the Soviets out of choice, but out of necessity. While America provided some support to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, its indifference (and now active opposition) has pushed...
Drinking more heavily than ever, Barclay goes on the run from Tucker's persistent badgering ("I am a moving target," Golding has written in a confessional essay describing his own pursuit by eager scholars). Tucker tracks his prey to a resort in the Swiss Alps and makes his pitch: "Wilf. I want you to appoint me your official biographer." He tacitly offers his beautiful but dim-witted wife to seal the bargain. Barclay resists this awkwardly staged temptation, but he winds up indebted to Tucker all the same. During a fogbound mountain walk, the author leans on a guardrail...
...week before. But most of us did not hear what Scammon said, or did not fully appreciate it. The Iowa system of caucus voting for presidential candidates is radical, explained Scammon. The lowans attending their caucuses gather in groups according to candidate preference. Theirs is an open vote, easy prey for zealous organizers and subject to a wide range of human pressures and enticements right on the spot. The secret ballot, which is the very heart of our democratic procedure, was designed to prevent such distortions. The polling booth is everyman's temple, unassailable by blandishments from the outside...
...given BSA meeting, for example, if you were to ask how many students had fallen prey to harassment, you could probably count the unraised arms on one hand. "A lot of people who feel they've been harassed write it off as an isolated incident that's not going to happen again and then they're surprised at the number of other hands that go up," says Heather S. Johnston '86, a BSA member...
...other shrubs is covered by a layer of snow so thick and crusty that the hungry animals are roaming toward settled areas for food. They often wander plowed roads and railroad tracks: 400 antelope were struck and killed by trains in one week in Carbon County, Wyo. Where prey go, predators follow: coyotes are coming close to towns to eat deer. Or whatever. "Archibald, my cat, won't go out at night any more," says D.J. Bassett of Jackson...