Word: preying
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...heavy rains that suddenly fell in the dense tropical forest created a moment of hope. The 15th Scout Company of the Armed Forces of the Philippines sensed an opportunity to strike at its elusive prey: Abu Sayyaf, the kidnapping gang that once formed part of Osama bin Laden's terrorism network. When the deluge began on Mindanao Island, the 30-odd bandits stopped to put up makeshift tarps for themselves and their three hostages ? a Filipina nurse and an American couple, Martin and Gracia Burnham. The soldiers were already close by, having followed a trail of discarded coconut meat...
...University [has] the opportunity to screen out those religious organizations and individuals who would prey upon unsuspecting or vulnerable students,” Christopher L. Pierce ’02 and Jeffrey P. Morgan ’02, two gay student leaders, wrote in a letter to University administrators...
Predator or Prey...
Things change. Imagine this was a year ago. A movie called "The Sum of all Fears" opens. You discount the implicit hype of the title - who could possibly sum up all the angst you are prey to in the deeper watches of the night? But you truck on out to the theater, and find yourself confronting a well-made, even occasionally witty, thriller in the "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May" vein. Once more, dear friends, on to the brink. You come away reasonably pleased with a slick Hollywood fantasy...
...Dawson's Creek" 9-10 "Birds of Prey...