Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Male adults, including fathers, stepfathers and live-in friends of unwed or separated mothers, all too frequently beat children too. But the cruelty of child abuse is most traumatic, and most widely abhorred, when such men prey sexually on young girls, sometimes barely past infancy, in the household. Some examples: ¶"All the time my father would be having sex he would be telling me I really liked it or telling me what a great body I had," writes Linda Halliday, 36, in The Silent Scream, her autobiographical account of how her father had regular intercourse with her, as well...
While some kitties have been tormented, up to 500 others each week have been abducted by teams of efficient criminals. Stealing up on their prey at break of dawn and using either tranquilizers or tantalizing goodies, the catnapers spirit the animals away to clinical experimenters, who require some 300 specimens each day. At $20 a cat, a resourceful thief can earn $50,000 a year...
...particularly in Spain, Italy and Greece, tend to be chaotic. In Athens or Rome, it can take half a day to cash a traveler's check at a bank. Pickpockets have proliferated in most major cities, particularly in Seville, Madrid and Paris, where organized bands of small boys prey on the unwary in places like the Louvre; there local police have even enlisted American tourists to act as decoys. And travelers protest as bitterly as ever about the all too many Parisian waiters who cling to their historic tradition of rudeness, slovenliness and occasional dishonesty. (But this...
WHAT'S ALL the fuss? you ask. Can't a writer paint pictures of the society he sees, even the hypersensitive sex-and-social-life carnival, without failing prey to political ire? If everywhere Frederick Barthelme looks, he sees women who terrify him--women taking the sexual initiative, women not concerned whether or not they are at a particular moment wanted, something very much like that must be happening around...
...addition to floods, mudslides and other natural havoc, this year's wet weather has had some less publicized if irritating consequences. Their ranks swollen by record springtime rains, mosquitoes are attacking in force in many parts of the country, feasting on their human prey with buzzing fury. To Gary Benzon, mosquito-control superintendent for Plymouth County, Mass., south of Boston, there is no doubt that this will be a bumper summer for the pesky insects. "In an average year we get about a thousand calls about mosquito problems between May and September. This year we have already got close...