Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Can Be Beat." All that success began to prey on them. Last week, the Packers needed a last-ditch, 23-yd. touchdown run by Halfback Tom Moore to beat Baltimore, 17-13. "The games are getting tougher every week," complained Head Coach Vince Lombardi. "The other teams are pointing for us. Every time they tackle us now, it seems like their life depends on it." Above all, the second-place (8 won, 2 lost) Detroit Lions were pointing for the Packers. Last time the two teams met, Green Bay won, 9-7, on a field goal with 33 seconds...
Small businessmen have more to fear from speculators who prey on them when they are desperate for capital. Says Petersen: "There are always some people who say 'Look, I'll put up $100,000 or so. You take 49% of the action and everything will be fine.' " The young small businessman is torn between his need for more money and loyalty to original investors; often he takes the cash and loses control...
...months, the nation's champion newspaper hunter, Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had stalked the enticing prey. Now it seemed all but in the bag. In Omaha, the World-Herald board of directors, their fears of absentee ownership apparently lulled by Newhouse assurances, accepted his bid of $40,065,780. All that intervened was a meeting of principal stockholders to ratify the board's decision. But last week, at the last moment. Outsider Newhouse lost his Omaha prize to a hometown...
Some Westerners believe that things must be made "easier" for Khrushchev by the West if he is not to fall prey to neo-Stalinist reactionaries. Moscow often seems eager to encourage this view, even though officially it has pronounced Stalinism as dead as Old Joe himself. Since early this year, Poet Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME cover, April 13), most popular spokesman of Russia's restive younger generation, has recited for trusted friends an eloquent, venomous attack on Stalinism that he considered too hot to publish. For a while, the poem circulated through Russia's mysterious poetic underground, until last...
This year coach Buff Donelli's pride is seriously depleted. Last season he had a large group of senior Lions that hunted Ivy prey with great skill. Cubs dominate the current pride, and some of them are apparently still teething...