Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several days earlier, a helicopter had rocketed the small Cambodian village of Prey Toul near the South Vietnamese border, killing one civilian and injuring 23 others. Prince Norodom Sihanouk's government had complained, and now the International Control Commission -composed of Canadian, Indian and Polish officials-was on the scene to investigate. The fragments they saw were clearly from U.S.-made rockets. The projectile laid out on a table for inspection was a grenade of the kind fired by American helicopters...
...their fourth summit meeting with Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev since the Russian invasion. Only after the session ended last week were Czechoslovaks informed that it had been held. That fact, and the manner in which the meeting was convened, constituted bleak proof that Czechoslovakia remained an uneasy prey to Russia's whims...
Winter of the Flu. Ailing youngsters and oldsters run a considerably greater risk that the infection will move down from the upper respiratory tract (mouth, nose, throat and windpipe) to the lungs, causing a form of viral pneumonia, or that the viral infection will make the lungs prey to bacterial pneumonia. For this last complication, antibiotics are prescribed-sometimes in advance, in the hope of preventing...
...ironic (if unsurprising) that Ingmar Bergman, amidst his low-key lighting and contrasty soundtracks, huge closeups and merciless symbolism, should fall prey to his own musing. Bergman's intellect and intuition never quite fuse: they live separately in Bergman the scriptwriter and Bergman the film director. Film is the most direct medium, but Bergman sees his ideas as literary...
Since the shocking twin murders of James ("Groovy") Hutchinson and Linda Fitzpatrick last year, Fink has set up a force of seasoned detectives to protect hippies from muggers, pushers and sex perverts who prey on them. Known as "the Hippie Squad," the plainclothesmen mingle with the hippies in their hangouts, usually grow their hair long, and have beards. Even so, they are easy to spot: they tend to have paunches and wear white socks and the black shoes that are part of the regulation police uniform. But since the Hippie Squad is part of Fink's protection program...