Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora have shared a natural tendency to rally round the flag in times of crisis. With few exceptions, this has been necessary because controversy makes Israel easy prey for anti-Semites and anti-Zionists. But now, in the aftermath of Shatila and Sabra, Jews are refusing to rubber stamp Israel's policies. Doubt that was once kept inside is now expressed openly...
...males in Equatorial Africa. Still others had developed strange fungal infections or other rare cancers. All had one thing in common: an immune system so severely impaired that they were living playgrounds for infectious agents. As soon as one bug could be brought under control, these patients would fall prey to another, gradually wasting away...
...reads, plays chess against a computer, vigorously conducts the music he plays on his hifi. Sometimes he visits his mistress in Salamanca, more frequently he calls on his only friend, a priest, to chide him with anticlerical chat. He has become less worldly than the good father, and easy prey for Goyita, a 13-year-old schoolgirl (Ana Torrent of Cria), an instinctive siren who senses in him, despite their differences in age and sex, a kindred eccentricity of spirit. He is a very clean old man (especially as portrayed by the innocent-eyed Hector Alterio...
...left the premises; state trackers soon picked up radio signals somewhere over Ontario that were emanating from the transmitter on her tail. "There's an excellent chance she'll return to nest," insists Bill Byrne, a state wildlife official. "It's perfectly normal for birds of prey to make long exploratory flights before settling into a pattern...
...coat of arms. Back home, in Parliament, he became a master of publicity. Violence in Belfast surrounded his preachings for Irish home rule. Even his worst notions drew attention. He offered a bizarre plan to incarcerate and sterilize the mentally ill. "Feebleminded girls," he said, "are the easy prey of vice and hand on their own insanity with unerring and unfailing fertility." The scheme was unworkable; the controversy precedented...