Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assemblage of highly trained killers whose simple loyalty to their craft and to one another makes them easy prey to criminals who are merely mercenary...
Canada authorized the new hunt to aid the struggling economy of Newfoundland, where unemployment is now 18%. But the prey will be limited to adult seals, which must be shot instead of clubbed. Even so, animal-rights activists are mulling a worldwide boycott of Canadian marine products...
...from the Spanish Civil War battleship "Harvard" that currently sits next to the phone booths downstairs fell prey to a prank. Black Professor of Economics C. Peter Timmer '63, then a sophomore, and several friends decided to give the gun a new home in the main dining hall, Timmer said. "We were quite proud of ourselves," Timmer said. "The thing must have weighed over half a ton." Timmer discourages other freshmen from attempting the same stunt, suggesting that, "there must be better pranks...
...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...