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