Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a Nobel Prize for the person who figures out how the viruses select their prey," says Immunologist Paul Wiesner at the Centers for Disease Control, and "a second prize for the person who can figure out the latency of the virus: Just how does it select that perfect hiding place where it can stay for years without being destroyed by the immunological system?" Atlanta Virologist Andre Nahmias, one of the two scientists who discovered Type 2 in the late 1960s, predicts that it will be another seven to ten years before researchers find a way to prevent recurrent...
...England teams fell prey to the weather, however, and as the snow melted the confidence of Spring Break slowly slipped away and the team's mental sharpness faded into a psychological blur...
...only meaning of the musical is revealed in this opening scene and thereafter reiterated. Guido has been a lady-killer whose prey have turned on him and become his predators. The more devastating revelation follows: the playgoer could not care less about Guide's creative block, or the key women in his life...
Against those theologians who argue that democracy tends to fall prey to moral relativism by not exalting a unified vision of "the good," Novak responds that pluralism, which is the respect for each individual's own personal goals, allows mankind to realize a greater moral vision. Against those who argue that capitalism is based on selfish materialism, he responds that it tends to expand the wealth of all citizens by providing incentives for productivity. The marriage of pluralism and productivity best realizes the Christian ideal of caritas, or the compassionate love of fellow human beings...
Feliks, the son of a poor country priest elects to assassinate Prince Orlov. The "anarchist chappie," as he is called, moves close to his prey by captivating the susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively...