Word: preyed
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...Somerville man, whose apartment fell prey to condominiums two years ago, joined a conversation after his dinner of restaurant leftover. At first he mumbled unintelligibly, until a volunteer showed genuine interest in his past. Then his voice became clearer and stronger...
...Chinese have of themselves," he explains, "the final victory of the resourceful Chinese over the crafty foreigner, and the ability of the Chinese to know how to act without having anyone lose face." The tale that ecologists were using airplanes to drop vipers into the woods of Perigord (as prey for endangered hawks) expressed provincial contempt for ecologists as impractical outsiders. "No one bothered to ask whether it wouldn't be cheaper to rent a car or truck to release the snakes," says Kapferer, "or whether the snakes would survive a fall from an airplane...
Others travel to nearby women's colleges where undergraduates oft fall prey to Harvard MBAs. "There's always been a Wellesley connection," says one student who asked to remain anonymous...
Today's plague is a very different beast. AIDS works its way through a population slowly, over a period of years and even decades. It also tends to kill slowly, laying waste the immune system so that patients fall prey to a debilitating succession of infections. Unlike the plague of Guy's era, it is spread only through the most intimate forms of human contact: sexual intercourse, childbearing, the sharing of contaminated blood or needles...
...lover's window she sees a punk (Brad Greenquist) attack a young woman, Denise (Elizabeth McGovern). To protect Sylvia, Terry tells the police he witnessed the assault. But the road to jail is paved with good intentions. Soon Terry is a fugitive, and both Sylvia and Denise are prey to a wily killer...