Word: prey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard evaded the Blue Devils' trap, and the prey proved almost as shrewd as the hunter--perhaps even shrewder, considering the dominating talent of the Duke cagers...
More nettlesome was a planned accord on nuclear cooperation that would permit China to buy U.S. nuclear reactors and fuel for peaceful purposes. The agreement fell prey to Chinese misgivings over the congressionally mandated requirement that nuclear material not be reprocessed or transferred without U.S. approval. Prospects are slim that a compromise agreement can be worked out in time for Reagan's scheduled visit to Peking in April. Nonetheless. Administration officials were cheered by Zhao's verbal assurances that China intends to abide by the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which it has refused to sign...
...Coetzee's allegory, lawless street gangs have seized devastated cities; ferocious insurgents infest the countryside, blowing up railway tracks, mining the roads and attacking farmsteads; bands of robbers on the highways prey on the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been driven from their homes. The government tries to keep order through a system of forced-labor camps, gulags of the veld where prisoners are obliged to sing patriotic songs while being worked to death...
...actively recruited, whether the chance of success is high or not. Relatively few minorities and women occupy important positions in this university and, if Harvard appears to be lax in its recruiting efforts, an already limited sense of community will be even more seriously undermined. Such laxity will also prey on the recruitment of minority students, already slowing in recent years...
...five murders has a problem surviving anything but a bloody depressing finale. Levin provides an out; it is played well, adding a twist to make sure the audience leaves laughing and able to speculate on what happens next. That mixture of laughter and uncertainty make Deathtrap audiences easy prey...