Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some might see it as horsing around, but making contact lenses for horses is a serious business for Optech Inc. of Honolulu. The animals are often prey to eye maladies, and veterinarians find it hard to medicate the equine eye. One possible solution: fit the horse with soft, noncorrective lenses that can hold needed medication against the eyeball. Drugs put in the eye are normally washed away in seconds by the animal's natural tears...
...used spacecraft, Astronaut Joe Engle, 49, replied unhesitatingly. Of course not, said the veteran Air Force pilot, Columbia had been tested as thoroughly as any aircraft ever flown. Last week Engle had some cause to rue those words. Despite a flawless and spectacular liftoff, the orbiting spacecraft soon fell prey to more of the technical afflictions that have plagued the $10 billion shuttle program from its very beginning. Two hours after the shuttle rode its pillar of fire into the Florida skies, alarm lights flashed in the cockpit. It was the first hint of trouble in Columbia's electrical...
...script. Hailed by other characters as vivid, brilliant, sensitive, this Viola does little but throw up her hands in despair as she is mistaken for her brother, attacked by Toby and Aguecheek, adored and insulted, and made a pawn of. The play's grand denouement scene falls prey to this gradual slowing of pace, seeming just a bit too serene as a set of twins and two pairs of lovers are reunited...
Pilot Jim Biggs nudges the stick forward and drops another 50 ft. to goose his prey. The fierce blast of noise and dust sends the horses galloping down a yard-wide path that leads smack into a steel-fenced pen. Just as they reach the gully, Robison digs two silver spurs into his sorrel and charges in behind them. Now the old mare at the head of the pack realizes her mistake. She frantically tries to turn but is swept along by the others...
...words like "semipopular"--and the use of simile--like Mott the Hoople's "Rock and Roll Queen" is to "Star fucker" as Bad Company is to the Rolling Stones), this man is everything a rock critic should be, without any of the pretensions to which his cohorts fall prey...