Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason, explains Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures. "They're a kind of never-never land in modern undress." Teen-agers are not necessarily flattered by so much commercial attention. This month the student assembly at Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., rebelled and condemned manufacturers who prey on "gullible teen-agers...
Bats hunt night-flying moths by echolocation, uttering rapid chirps of ultra sonic sound and flying toward echoes that bounce back from their prey. It is a simple and effective system, but Dr. Roeder proved several years ago that noctuid moths can hear the search sonar of a cruising bat and take evasive action. To save their lives, they fold their wings and dive to the ground or shift suddenly into a zigzag course (TIME, June...
...Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer got his school nickname, "Hyena." "Did we not discover about the hyena that it was a most resourceful scavenger? . . . that to devour the dead, scavenged prey, it would often chew into it through the anus...
John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) is ideal prey for people who like to think about banning books. This subject of Massachusetts' most recent attack also figured in what is believed to be the first recorded suppression of literature on grounds of obscenity in the United States, Commonwealth v. Holmes, an 1821 case in which two Massachusetts men were indicted "for publishing a lewd and obsecene print, contained in a certain book entitled Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and also for publishing the said book...
...down some Communists who posed as friends of Buddhism by pointing out this or that common denominator in the two "isms" and by saying that Buddhism and Communism are the same. Buddhists call the trick the "Communist killing-by-clinching method." History shows that Buddhism has never been a prey to other isms. When Buddhism dies, it will die a natural death, as Gautama Buddha said, after it has completed 5,000 years...