Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows better than Rodino how difficult it will be to prevent the 38-man committee (21 Democrats, 17 Republicans) from falling prey to the "animosities, partialities, influence and interest" that Alexander Hamilton warned in 1788 could make a mockery of impeachment proceedings. Rodino himself stirred the first controversy on the committee last October by ramming through a party-line vote giving him the sole power to issue subpoenas. Accused of partisanship, Rodino backed off and agreed to share subpoena powers with Michigan's Edward Hutchinson, the committee's ranking Republican...
...doctor has come down with the disease; the historian has fallen prey to the shortsight that he attributed to his subjects. Stott's chronicle is infected with the type of superficial thinking and weak-minded analysis that an overemphasis on "authenticity" and the "universality" of feelings created in the culture of the thirties...
...what happened in the case of the late Roman Theatre, and it was symbolic of what was happening to the culture. The stage was, at one and the same time, both the victim and the stimulator of a malaise that denatured a whole people, and made them easy prey of outside forces...
...closing time approaches, panic overtakes those who have yet to find a mate; men who have spent the evening leaning against the wall suddenly come to life and lunge toward their nubile prey. The ratio of men to women seems to be nearly 50-50 at this point, ensuring-at least in theory-that no one will leave alone. But as couples drift off into the darkness, the games have only begun. Gripes Jeff Erikson, a TV salesman from Minneapolis: "Some chicks come here to be hustled, others to fall in love. It would help if they wore different signs...
...Franco, who for years had counted on him as his right-hand man. The Generalissimo had expected the dour admiral to keep Spain on a rightward course when he himself died and to make certain that his successor as chief of state, Prince Juan Carlos, did not fall prey to liberal ideas. But Carrero Blanco's rigid orthodoxy had made the possibility of violence as predictable as his timetable...