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Word: preying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These people prey on the anxiety of law school applicants," Badger said of cram course educators...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: LSAT Preparation Scrutinized | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

After making Harris sweat for 340 meters, Sheehan sprinted by his prey, breaking into a wide smile as he crossed the finish line in meet record time of 9:55.65 (with Harris two tenths of a second back...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Thinclads Place 5th | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...staggered across the street. By this time, other gunmen had begun to close in. Two approached from the left. Another, brandishing a .45 pistol, appeared in front of a warehouse. Javier ducked into an alley and tried to hide behind an outhouse door. But the masked killer found his prey and finished him off with a burst of gunfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangland Politics | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...some rather well-paid if shady messengering for a sleazy drug dealer named Gypsy (Rudy Ramos). Too cowardly or wise to deliver his product himself, he recruits money-hungry young innocents from Quicksilver to do his dirty work for him. One delivery boy, Apache (David Harris), has already fallen prey to Gypsy's ugly side: having dared to take a cut of his action, Gypsy strikes back, hunting Apache down in his car in an inferior version of the chase scene from The French Connection...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Don't Get Taken for a Ride by Quicksilver | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

...simultaneously displayed and exorcised by public opposition to anything labeled elitist. (Fortunately, few Harvard-Radcliffe students actually feel the guilt they think they should; most are too healthy and sensible for that; but they seem unable to work out a satisfying rationale for enjoying themselves; and thus are easy prey for Neo-Puritans...

Author: By E.l. Pattullo, | Title: Final Clubs: A Curious Target for Reformist Zeal | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

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