Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every corner of the world and ranged in bulk from the chicken-size Compsognathus to the 100-ton Brachiosaurus, the largest creature ever to trod the earth. Though they plodded through swamps and shallow coastal waters, they were essentially land bound. Some ambled on all fours; others scampered after prey on their lower limbs. Some may have lived a century or more...
...superdog, unlike the football offenses, was not easily deterred. Not put off by the officer's doggery, the canine crusader stalked its prey again, grabbed it around the middle and carried it back away from the endline...
...Dalloway, was that her "stream of consciousness" method was not only startlingly original but startlingly successful as well. In To the Lighthouse the stream-of-consciousness technique is present as before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers the nature of her prey. The actual capture she leaves to those who, reading her book, are her companions in the chase...
...fashioned Hollywood weepies demanded that the audience surrender to the prejudices of gender: that women were delicate, noble creatures, emotional yearlings, easy prey for the stronger, predatory male. Cross Creek is an inspirational weepie, asking the viewer to nod off with it into a dream of American rural purity. There, a backwoods shack just has to house a community of decent souls, and poverty is God's way of saying "Trust to your own resources," and folks' closeness to the land makes them more sensitive to the changing seasons of the heart. These propositions may be true...
...pilot of the Su-15 announces his intention to down the passenger plane with an air-to-air missile. Meanwhile, the MiG-23, some 7 miles from the target, reports to ground control that he has both the Soviet hunter and its Korean prey squarely in his field of vision...