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Word: preying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steamy, especially when he intends to foreshadow ominous events. But once on the road, the author restores the tired abstractions of great Western space and silence with fresh feelings of motion and flight. Both animals and men are hunted in this hard though never heartless book. The prey die with fierce dignity and the predators do not gloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Easy Driver | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Japan, apparently on its way to reinforce the Soviet fleet contingent in the Indian Ocean. No less worrisome were the medical bulletins from Belgrade, reporting on the rapidly deteriorating health of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 87. Without Tito, who broke with the Kremlin in 1948, Yugoslavia might fall prey to internal conflicts that could inspire another Soviet intervention. This very specter seemed to rise last week with reports of troop movements inside the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeezing the Soviets | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...Afghanistan, but all its trumpets of propaganda blared denial and defiance. The Afghanistan rebellion had to be suppressed, went the Kremlin line, and so the Soviet army had to suppress it. "To have acted otherwise," said Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, "would have meant leaving Afghanistan a prey to imperialism." Furthermore, said Brezhnev, Afghanistan was not even the cause of the current crisis. Said he: "If there were no Afghanistan, certain circles in the U.S. and in NATO would have found another pretext to aggravate the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Moscow: Defiant Defense | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Tracking Lincoln's murderer, Edward's jewels and other prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blending Fantasy with Fact | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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