Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make matters worse for Mantle, another factor-totally divorced from baseball-seems to prey on his mind. Mantle's father died of cancer in 1952 at the age of 40. Two uncles died young. Mantle himself has a history of osteomyelitis. Says Coleman, in agreement with others: "I just bet he doesn't think he'll last until he's 50. I was the Yankees' player representative, and I know that whenever pensions were brought up, Mickey would always say, 'Well, you don't have to worry about a pension...
...enterprising Parisian pimp named Pierre Sorlut set out two years ago to corner the nymphlet market. Pierre recruited his pubescent charmers among girls aged 12 to 18, first by seducing them and then by arranging dates with wealthy clients with infantile tastes. Pierre's particular prey were the pouting little imitators of Brigitte Bardot, with puffball hairdos and ambitions to become starlets or models. "How could I live without my little cats?" Pierre would say as he collected the earnings of Janine, Colette and Monique. If a girl proved difficult, Pierre would speak musingly of vitriol and its effects...
...from being a gullible prey for the adman's every gimmick, the African checks into quality and price before plunking down his hard-earned money, can be fanatically loyal to a product once he is won over. But his sense of values, his different cultural life, and his ignorance of many Western habits all conspire to make him a customer to test the ingenuity of the Madison Avenue adman. Hut-to-hut market research, for example, does not seem to work. A recent survey for brilliantine among upper-income Nigerians ($280 to $1,400 a year) showed that...
...prey was Captain Manuel Beatón, one of the growing number of officers in Castro's army who think that Communists have perverted and appropriated Castro's revolution. Beatón popped up on the Sierra's southern slope a fortnight ago, leading a band of 60 to 80 men. He reached an army garrison, captured arms...
Great mountains of gold? Flocks of captive women? Slaves? Or other prey...