Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Dr. May, has fallen particular prey to "Western man's preoccupation with mechanistic methods, his apotheosis of technique." For technique, worshiped as a way of controlling nature, has led to "the corollary need to see human personality as an object of control like the rest of nature." And the availability of techniques for an infinite variety of purposes has resulted in neurotic activity, "keeping busy" for its own sake, because "to do is often easier, and may allay anxiety more quickly, than...
...point of all this is not to criticize the public's attitude towards the Needy who suddenly appear at Christmas to prey on its pocketbook. Rather, it is to remind all of us that long after the trimming and decoration have been packed and stored away for another year, there will be so many people huddling, like Mrs. Bella H., in some dank basement apartment, waiting for their cataracts to finish the job, waiting for their hearing to go, waiting for their remaining teeth to rot away...
...this light-hearted and heavy-handed intrigue goes unchallenged, the study committee will have become another small soapbox for campus partisans. A group which potentially can carry on a serious, disinterested study of an honest international problem will have fallen prey to the petty machinations of undergraduate politicians...
...midweek the Reds made their first serious effort to counter the new system, sent four fast torpedo boats out to intercept a pair of Nationalist LSTs. Before the Communist craft could reach their prey, Nationalist Sabre jets flashed down with cannon roaring and, by Taipei's count, sank three of the four. Angrily, the Communists hurled two waves of 16 MIGs apiece out to punish the Sabres. In the swirling dogfights that followed, four Nationalist pilots knocked down at least five MIGs, sent the rest hightailing home. The kills brought the Nationalist total to 17 MIGs in three weeks...
...that the optimists claim for it and brings little gratitude, the fact is that on balance, U.S. food has saved many lives, U.S. assistance has brought the beginnings of economic progress to many nations. If such nations are still not healthy, they would have been sicker without aid-and prey to riot and revolution. And so, swallowing its misgivings, the U.S., in its newfound determination to rid itself of the stigma of hostility to Arab nationalism, is now even implicitly committed to give vital economic aid, on his own terms, to the Egyptian dictator whose propaganda spokesmen daily proclaim...