Word: preyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...surface, $13 for a simple extraction, $14 for cleaning, $92 for root-canal therapy and $251 for full upper dentures. For the financially strapped patient, Denholtz recommends Government clinics and dental schools -often inconvenient, sometimes low on quality, but easy on the wallet. At all costs, do not fall prey to what Denholtz calls cut-rate "assembly line" dental sweatshops, where one man said he had all his teeth pulled in 35 seconds while the dentist boasted, "This is just like shelling corn...
...first accomplishment was convincing the U.S. Senate?and Ohio's powerful Republican Mark Hanna?that the Panama route was superior to the Nicaraguan. His chief argument: Nicaragua was prey to volcanic eruptions. On the morning of a crucial Senate vote, Bunau-Varilla sent every Senator a Nicaraguan five-peso stamp picturing an erupting volcano that could have been Mount Momo-tombo, near the proposed canal line. The Senate switched to Panama on June 19, 1902. Soon afterward, Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay began to press Colombia to agree to a treaty. Their offer: $10 million in gold, plus...
...gang's actions as justified retaliations against the excesses of capitalism. The praise increased the gang's arrogance-and may have contributed to its fatal carelessness. Once the West German federal police set up special squads to cope with the terrorists. they found their quarries easy prey. In 1972 Baader blundered into police hands by racing up to a clandestine bomb factory in a flashy purple Porsche (the gang had a capitalist weakness for luxurious cars). Meinhof naively fell into a police trap in a village near Hannover...
...nation's homosexuals, still smarting from the successful anti-gay rights drive of Anita Bryant in Miami, the news of the California murders came at a bad time. The Bryant group had argued that many male homosexuals prey on the young-and indeed some of the California victims were teenagers. What was more, the press began rehashing the sex-thrill murders of 27 youths by three Texas homosexuals in 1973 -still the largest proved mass murder in America...
...physical attack because accepting sexual invitations from total strangers is an established part of the gay scene. Says Berkeley Psychologist Michael Evans: "Homosexuals are an easy population to get access to in some anonymous way." Chicago Police Sgt. Richard Sandberg puts it more tersely: "The gays are easy prey...