Word: preying
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With little pass rush and less talent and experience in the secondary, the Crimson has fallen prey to opposing teams’ aerial attacks. Opponents have been able to find seams in the Crimson’s coverages and march the ball down the field. Harvard ranks second to last in the Ivy League, giving up an average of 261 yards in the air, and allowing opponents to complete over 56 percent of their passes...
...tinkers, moved to the U.S. to escape the potato famine. They started out as horse traders. Today, between 20,000 and 100,000 English, Scottish and Irish Travelers (nobody knows the actual number) live in groups, mostly in the South. They are reviled by some as con artists who prey on the elderly by overcharging for shoddy home-repair jobs. Others insist the Travelers are hard workers and have no more lawbreakers than any other community...
...Other sections of the site explain things like Jewish burial practices and the significance of the religious symbols carved into the stones. Haidler's project is unique in the Czech Republic, both for its digital presentation and for its effort to preserve an aspect of Jewish culture that is prey to natural erosion and vandalism. Though he now has backing in the form of cultural grants, Haidler still likes to camp out in graveyards, something he did in the past to save money. "There is nothing like waking up in a cemetery," he says. "For one thing, you are still...
...militant Islam is thanks in part to U.S. intervention. But the battle for hearts and minds isn't over. "America's national interests are in the Balkans as much as in Iraq," says Enver Hasani, a law professor at the University of Pristina. "This region is still easy prey for terrorist activities." Some U.S. troops will likely remain in Kosovo for a few more years. The province is "still a big issue" for us, says a senior U.S. State Department official. And the region will continue to attract veteran U.S. diplomats capable of navigating its byzantine political byways...
...These verdicts are a striking departure for a country led by conservatives who would rather deny, revise or bury the past. Tokyo hard-liners still capture headlines by declaring, as former defense chief Hosei Norota did last year, that Japan invaded most of Asia only because it "had fallen prey to a scheme of the United States." Publishers of middle school textbooks, who in the past few years finally began calling the 1937 murder of up to 300,000 civilians in Nanjing a "massacre," recently succumbed to right-wing pressure and changed most editions back to calling the slaughter...