Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ahead 3-1, the Crimson seemed in good position to win, but an inability to finish off their prey was again demonstrated...
Lucas' craftsmanship shines with particular brilliance in the final half hour of the film. Besides the stunning special effects that the director calls upon to underscore the urgency of this concluding sequence, Lucas masterfully builds up the suspense to a shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death...
...family's impression that the officers who ran the shop either did not inform the mechanics of the problem or at the very least did not verify that their work was done correctly. The higher-ups wanted a scapegoat, and naturally the "little guy" was the easiest prey. Mueller's suicide only adds to the profound sorrow we feel over an accident that should never have happened. DAVID R. LOWRY Wellesley, Massachusetts...
...Russians fall prey to conspiracy theories and old think about American motives, such words as partnership and cooperation will, in their ears, sound like synonyms for appeasement, subservience and humiliation. The result could be that we will indeed cooperate less and compete more, on precisely those issues where it is in our common interest to cooperate more and compete less: terrorism, regional conflict, environmental degradation, arms control and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction...
...course, the more we convince ourselves that errant children are subhuman predators, the easier it gets to deny all children in poverty the resources and nurture they need. If they're the predators, we must be the vulnerable prey--the only real innocents around. And this probably explains why we can blithely identify with the man-boy in the frosted-cereal commercial while demanding that child criminals be punished like actual men. What could be better than being a great big kid, free of both the responsibilities of adulthood and the disabilities of youth, while the real kids are locked...