Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strapping, 6-ft. 1-in. frame in the generously sweeping gestures of the quarterdeck, and boasted homerically of his vast appetites for food, drink and women. When asked his profession, "Old Ches" would reply with a huge guffaw: "Smuggling." Men and women in all walks of life fell easy prey to Ches's flamboyant charms, and after failing to see him for long stretches, old friends would frequently renew acquaintance with a happy smile and the affable greeting: "Hello, you old s.o.b. Been in the jug again?" The answer, all too often...
...German university, an American mixture of both. It was Harvard that, in 1636, transplanted the seeds of liberal learning to the New World, and it has been Harvard more than any other institution that has nourished it and made it grow. Had its founders been lesser men, prey to some of the practical nonsense that plagues many a U.S. campus today, they might have set up a curriculum of Forest Clearing & House Building, with possible electives in Indian Affairs and Musketry. Instead, they made a decision that has set the tone of U.S. higher education ever since. The purpose...
Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni stalked the prey with a snarl. "We had hoped that Fanfani would prove to be the mouthpiece of the new, active spirit of the Catholic left," he said, "but instead, he reveals in the most stupefying and offensive way his conception of the corporate and paternalis tic state. Fanfani, your government is ... as dead as a sad smoked herring...
...Bantu Education Act will no doubt achieve its purpose as a tool of South African segregation, but only at the expense of education. Ignorance will only further the separation of the native community, leaving it easy prey to the same kind of nationalism erupting in Kenya. To this extent, the Act is largely self-defeating. But in a larger sense, the new policy is an attempt to set back a force which cannot be stopped. In the same way that segregation in American schools is doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance...
...triumphs, although a short-lived one, was the Morgenthau plan for postwar Germany. The plan called for destruction of nearly all German industry, and reduction of Germany to a "pastoral" state, plus early withdrawal of all U.S. troops. This, of course, would have left Germany-and Europe-an easy prey to Communist domination...