Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They saw Nazi developments as "nothing more than a very complex political problems," with no moral implications. She noted "a deep seated fear of judging," to which all men were prey, that prevented many from discarding their given frame of moral references even in the light of contemporary events...
...proper strangers to the improper address, sends around Cass Henderson (Gene Hackman), an irately appealing small businessman who has come to town to beard John Cleves. When Mrs. John Cleves drops in, Cass poses obligingly as Ellen's husband. When John barges in, all four characters fall sudden prey to lockjaw or dropjaw. Then the comedy slacks into matchmaking...
...strategy to sink a small destroyer and more than enough to sink Cassius Clay. For one thing, Liston is not going to stand in the center of the ring for seven rounds and watch Cassius dance around him, nor will he madly chase a fleeting shadow. Sonny stalks his prey with the relentless drive of a Sherman tank. Anyone who saw the second Liston-Patterson travesty noticed that Sonny is not slow; slower than Clay, yes, but certainly agile and savvy enough to catch Cassius in a corner...
...hours before the execution. The plot now changes from a moral drama to a horror story. The over-zealous prosecutor turns into a murderous ghoul ("I think the execution of the law upon an offender is something beautiful and moving") who will not be bilked of his prey. The brother, drawing off pursuit, crashes his car and gets disfigured by fire; the prosecutor, not seeing the difference, prepares to shoot the charred victim ("He's conscious, isn't he? That's all the law requires."). Mean-while McKenna, his faith restored by his brother's intended sacrifice, races...
...impotence of the former regime. But the functioning of the public powers-government and Parliament-as it is governed by our constitution, as it is applied, as it was confirmed last year by the nation, enables the state to decide and act. In the midst of so many countries prey to troubles, jolts, uncertainties, the French Republic appears as the very example of political stability. This has never been seen before...