Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could never forget the voice. In some ways he was the last bastion of defense for the innocent. Beautiful women, chivalrous old men--they all lived in a dream world far above the thugs and petty schemers who were anxious for the quick kill and wanted to prey on all those nice people in all those nice houses. The Continental Op lived with the thugs, but he aspired, ethically at least, to the Victorian mansions. He would keep the wolves from their doors--and then they could go back to their fantasies. Only the Op knew it was a fantasy...
...virus that afflicts the gypsies with fatal wilt disease, so called because the dying caterpillar shrivels into a kind of inverted-V shape. More diabolical are traps scented with sex lures to attract male moths. Scientists have also been distributing different types of insects-wasps, flies, beetles-that prey on gypsy moths at various stages in their life cycle...
More often, Shales stings his victims with wit. Investigative reporters who pounce on their prey in ambush interviews are practicing "bonzo journalism," said Shales. "Naturally one is reminded of the old story about the dog chasing cars -what do they do if they catch one? Wrestle him to the ground? Drag him off to the hoosegow?" Shales ridiculed Dan Rather's histrionic foray into Afghanistan last year for 60 Minutes, dubbing him "Gunga Dan," and noting that Rather's peasant garb "made him look like an extra out of Dr. Zhivago." Some viewers still cannot tune...
...powers that crush him. People in most places are dying of hunger, of misery and solitude; a whole people was killed in Cambodia, and another is being killed in Timor; the children of Uganda awake to the consciousness of the wretchedness of having been born; and the birds of prey-the world powers-are gnawing on the bones of 2,000 million human beings. Where would the established order be on two-thirds of this planet without the machine gun or the rope, torture or exile? It is on this scale that I measure the privilege of being French...
...Since all concerned here are obviously up to date on the latest advances in crime and crime fighting, why is it that the only thing they can think to do when they want to sneak up close to their prey is put on a dress? This happens three times in Nighthawks, which is surely twice too often unless they are trying to make some tiresome point about the unacknowledged sexual preferences of excessively masculine types...