Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bickering, the probes, and the fear of hit men stalking their prey will not soon end. Yet the blame for the tragedy at Jonestown must rest primarily on Jim Jones. Even his 19-year-old son Stephan admitted, "I can almost say I hate this man." His father, Stephan said, "claimed he was afraid of nothing, which I know was bull. My father was a very frightened...
These Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are delightful little bonbons, really. They appeal to the Anglophile in all of us. Like the imported BBC television shows so popular today, they prey on the transatlantic inferiority complex that leaves most Americans rolling their eyes at anyone who flashes a British accent. The Loeb production unashamedly squeezes every drop out of this tendency, even playing "God Save the Queen" before the overture...
...Brown was easy prey seven days later and suddenly it was the fourth quarter in New Haven and the scoreboard read seven...
...veteran of the annual seal-hunting protests in his native Canada, McTaggart six years ago sailed a wooden ketch into the South Pacific in a futile attempt to halt a French atomic bomb test. This time he vowed to keep a cordon of conservationists between the Norwegians and their prey. Said McTaggart: "There is no way they can stop us, short of sending in the police...
Though one was mainly a novelist and storyteller and the other a born play wright, Turgenev is sometimes regarded as a precursor of Chekhov. But even the similarities between the two great Russians are deceptive. Chekhov drew a bitingly comic profile of the follies that his provincial characters are prey to; yet he shared their pain. Turgenev fired off comic volleys that riddle his provincial characters' vanity and pretension; but when his people bleed, he casts a cold and worldly eye upon the scene. In Chekhov, longing is the arrow of love, usually un requited; in Turgenev, idle fantasy...