Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Current research has focused on the use of tools by animals as a signal of intelligence. Chimpanzees, for example, get at termites by jabbing their nests with twigs. The assassin bug of South America, also a termite fancier, approaches its prey by gluing nest material on its back to serve as camouflage. But, says Beck, the bug's behavior is probably "innate or genetically prewired." Another scientific index is the ability of animals to transmit information through so-called language behavior. Bees, foraging for pollen, return to the hive and perform an intricate figure-eight dance...
...dread. It is a moment in which they are out of control as individuals-not merely outside the law, but out of biological order. Something stirs, an ancient reflex, as if they are dragged back through history to a starting point in evolution. The mob is a pack, its prey the female. Her difference is the instigator, her frailty the goad. Rape what you cannot have. Plunder what you can never know. Mystery equals fear equals rage equals death. It is she who stands for all life's threats, she who released animal instinct in the first place. Once...
...wrongs, especially in an era where so much political discussion tends toward excessive moralizing--just consider the nuclear debate. But Goldman and Fuller eschew an easy judgment either way, whether it be outrage or the wrong-headed "noble cause" nostalgia that a sympathetic warrior's tale could fall prey...
...wonder if we can say with confidence that today the North American and Latin American press is not prey to manipulators. Throughout both continents, the charges by Cuba that freedom is threatened by dictators of the right is common fare for readers and watchers of the news, while [Fidel] Castro's prisons are full of poets and political dissidents...
...spikers' main competition should surface from the other pool, which boasts teams such as Springfield and Northeastern, the number two and three seeds, respectively. However, the Crimson enjoyed having Springfield as its main course--uh, competition--throughout the year, dismissing them in three games each time. Northeastern fell prey to the spikers in the New England Open finals, 2-1, in the only meeting between the two teams this season...