Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vacation retreat in Bavaria, and there the conversation got around to reunification too. "What really counts," said Erhard, "is that we develop a continuous initiative." He added, in a swipe at the Socialists' advocacy of "small and medium steps" (such as the Easter passes): "Let us not fall prey to the self-deception that reunification can be reached with inadequate technical means...
Director Sidney Lumet brings the movie alive when his camera turns on Harlem's blighted streets, sopping up the juices of a slum that breeds thieves, spivs, prostitutes and all their prey. Then in flashbacks-some spliced subliminally into the narrative two or three frames at a time, others developed in excruciating detail-Lumet adroitly dramatizes the agony of memories. Sunning himself on a lawn in a bleak outpost of suburbia where he lives with relatives, Nazerman's mind melts back to an idyllic day in the old country with his wife and children. In a teeming subway...
Some, of course, came to prey as well as pray. Sixty Nigerian Moslems were arrested for smuggling kola nuts, an illegal stimulant, into Saudi Arabia; police thoughtfully escorted the offenders through the hajj ritual, then brought them back to Jeddah for prosecution...
...Scotland, disdainfully instructed his legate in Scotland to "burn and slay and raise dragon" in the land. On June 19, at Methven field, the English scattered the rebel forces with great slaughter. King Robert's wife, daughter and sister were captured-in the spirit of fair prey, the English shut his sister up in a cage and hung her for several months on the walls of Roxburgh Castle. The King fled headlong to the Irish Sea, and for five fateful months was lost to history...
...compound and its adjacent dirt airstrip, some 400 American and montagnard defenders oversee dense jungle, slippery slopes and the crumpled folds of ravines ideally suited for enemy mortar attack. A single ribbon of road leads south toward embattled Route 19, the east-west highway where government convoys are frequent prey for Viet Cong ambushes. Last week the Communists hit Kannack...