Word: preying
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...Even though the Sudanese Army reclaimed Tawila the day after the rebel attacks, the remaining civilians don't feel any safer. Far from protecting them, the townspeople say they are again the soldiers' prey. "They have treated the people in a bad way," says one man. "They beat us, they harass us, they take our things." And sometimes they rape...
...Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, helping its Nationalist-run counterpart shepherd U.S. aid shipments through China's countryside amid the chaos that followed World War II. The 26-year-old finds himself in what he calls "the kingdom of squeeze," where truckloads of rations, clothing and military supplies often fall prey to Nationalist strongmen who are as intent on lining their own pockets as on preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy for the peasants caught between the battling political factions, and a gnawing desire to document the pitfalls...
...become a laboratory for creativity and a catalyst for the understanding of art at Harvard. The Carpenter Center as synthèse des arts was a utopian challenge for Corbusier, whose recent and no less idealistic project of designing a home for the fledging United Nations had fallen prey to the horns of bureaucracy...
...have a confession to make. After three and a half years of exploring the arts, trying my hand at editorial writing and involving myself in Harvard’s academic centers, I have fallen prey to on-campus recruiting, which every year clutches numerous seniors in its unforgiving grip. I have long disdained and derided the whole process: a child of artists from San Francisco, I could never imagine myself on Wall Street in a tailored suit and prim pumps. Yet I have succumbed to the pressures to find a competitive, high-paying...
...secret plan to gut Social Security and revive the draft, which inspired Bush to accuse his rival of exploiting the politics of fear. The Democrats threw the charge right back when the Bush campaign launched the "Wolves" ad, which shows a pack prowling a forest like terrorists hunting their prey and implicitly suggests the country can't afford to choose Kerry under such threatening conditions...