Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, all other democratic hopefuls named in the poll, including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, were considered easy prey for either Rockefeller or Nixon...
...well now," he mused, "like any dutiful junior gov major, I shall take Gov 106a, The History of Political Thought I, this term, in order that I may be fully prepared for my general examinations next year." Methodically, Delwood turned to page 176 in the catalogue and found his prey. MWF at 12--great, noon is a fine time for political theory, good old political theory." He made a note on his personalized memo...
...husband had deserted her. Young Agron had been in scrapes with the police before. Umbrella Man was a surly 17-year-old named Antonio Hernandez, whose stepmother and father (a hotel worker) live in a filthy Harlem flat. He had left home weeks before to roam the streets and prey on homosexuals and hopheads who wander through the slum areas...
...white headdresses do not conceal the facial tattoos of their tribal origin. As nurses and teachers, they help the white nuns in the region, who constantly fan out to outlying parishes, get around on horseback, motorcycles or Jeeps, ford streams on oil-drum rafts, shoot snakes and birds of prey that threaten the mission's poultry flocks. So pleased is the flying bishop with the Rosary order that he now plans to launch an equivalent order for monks...
...determined Ann Whitefield, who forces Jack Tanner to his knees and her arms, Rosemary Harris makes a delicious seductress, ensnaring her prey with a wonderfully cool, crafty grace. In his stage directions Shaw calls Ann "one of the vital geniuses," and Tanner says, referring to her, "Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation." Miss Harris' Ann completely fails to live up to these prescriptions, even during the hell scene when her tempting activities are temporarily in abeyance; but perhaps there is nothing in the lines given her that can be so acted. At any rate, she makes...