Word: preying
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...morale of Iraqi troops who would find renewed strength to fight after hearing of the defeats of their enemy. In addition, such propaganda—especially when repeated over and over again—may help to bandwagon others into joining a movement. Once a few groups fall prey to this misinformation and join a cause, their support becomes social evidence of the clamor. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy—people becoming part of a cause supports the initial assertion of the movement which encourages more people to join in. Furthermore, people who join earlier are perceived...
...great coverage of that, but one idea, which was very anthropomorphic, was that [the victims] made the tiger mad and that's why the tiger jumped. A tiger is really not likely to jump just because it's mad. They did something to make that tiger think they were prey. So they either got on the fence, or jumped over the fence, or did something with their behavior to make that tiger think "dinner," and all the switches go on - the rush of adrenaline in those animals is incredible...
...Annie Hall), but generally the Academy prefers to be edified. The year of Citizen Kane, 1941, was also the year of Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, today regarded as one of the great American comedies, with Stanwyck and Henry Fonda brilliant as a cardsharp predator and her millionaire prey. None of them got even a nomination for this supreme farce...
...This is not the first time that Germans have fallen prey to the attractions of a baby bear. Almost exactly one year ago, a mother polar bear in Berlin's central zoo also rejected her offspring. The cub, christened Knut, went on to become a media celebrity, gracing the cover of Vanity Fair and inspiring a blog devoted to his daily routine. A Hollywood producer, Ash Shah, recently offered the Berlin zoo $100,000 for the rights to his life story, plus a profit share for the zoo of up to $5 million if the movie does well. Negotiations...
...like in the 1970s. Except that now Times Square is empty of all human life except for Robert Neville (Smith), who patrols the streets with his rifle and his faithful dog Samantha. He spots a deer and is ready to gun it down, when a lioness leaps on her prey and begins devouring it, as her mate and cub watch. As we used to say about New York 30 years ago, it's a jungle out there...