Word: preying
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...nothing more than a light touch on the arm or a splash of water on the back. But for the unsuspecting prey, the feeling is more like hot steel burrowing through the flesh, permanently scalding one’s ego. There is no memorial service for those fallen in battle, only a lingering red hand-shaped mark to remind the victim of his shame and regret...
...victim.” In order to assassinate one’s victim, the assassin must either tag or water-gun him with at least ten feet of space from the nearest person. If the hit is successful, the assassin then pursues the victim of his newly slaughtered prey...
...editorial dissenters and even the editorial majority of your recent staff opinion fall prey to a basic oversimplification (Editorial “Leniency for First-Years,” Feb. 24). Advising and achievement are not the same. Just as praiseworthy achievement is not attributable to an advisor, neither is failure. Advising can of course contribute to achievement, or at least so we advisors, who devote countless hours to our charges not only during the day but also at night and on weekends, would like to think. But sometimes students just are not ready here and now to step...
...5 with wind chill in Brooklyn this morning--ideal weather for SUV hunters to stalk and tag their prey, since the vehicles' owners are likely to be indoors. One tagger, who says her name is Wendy, girds herself for the hunt with two layers of sweaters, a silky orange-and-cream scarf and a handful of bumper stickers. "I feel like I should be putting on camouflage," she jokes, "to Pink Panther music...
...brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own, and having pow'r T' inforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. . . . And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man seeing this...