Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough his health was never better. There is no more demanding job in diplomacy than representing the U.S. in what, ideologically at least, is enemy territory. The grimy, grey ten-story U.S. embassy is always under siege. From nearby apartments all visitors are watched. The embassy staff is permanent prey for Soviet plainclothesmen (even children's outings are sometimes shadowed by police), and telephone "bugs" in offices and homes are taken for granted. Though social contacts with Russian officials have become easier in the Thompson years, the tiny (about 200) U.S. diplomatic colony still lives and works in oppressive...
While the F.L.N. leaders wrangled like children, there was evidence of a growing impatience among the long-suffering 10 million Algerians. The historical-minded remembered that their country had always fallen prey to conquerors because of the inability of its chiefs to unite against a common foe. The F.L.N. newspaper, El Moudjahid, had a warning to all the wranglers: "If an agreement is not reached very quickly, it will inevitably become necessary to consider the replacement of the leadership...
...some time Malaya has cast a wary eye at the spread of Communist influence directly to the south. On the island state of Singapore, Red-lining extremists threaten to topple the local government, and the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo (see map) are prey to the expansionist aims of Indonesia's left-leaning President Sukarno...
...with elaborate manners and morals, and it was James's purpose to smoke them out. No other modern writer has so deftly exposed man's savagery beneath his civilized veneer. "James saw [the world] a place of torment," his personal secretary Theodora Bosanquet wrote, "where creatures of prey perpetually thrust their claws into the quivering flesh of the doomed, defenseless children of light. He saw fineness sacrificed to grossness, beauty to avarice, truth to a bold front. He hated the tyranny of persons over each other...
Farr was typical of Gilbert's associates. No man to prey on widows and orphans. Gilbert cultivated people who were able to help him socially in return for a rids on his financial coattails. Said one Manhattan socialite: "I always thought Gilbert was rather gauche, ill at ease and pushy. But I just felt that a guy that ambitious for himself might bring my money up with him." Wealthy London Dandy John Aspinall grew so fond of Eddy that in 1959 he threw a $15.000 party for him in a Belgrave Square mansion decked out to resemble the Hanging...