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Word: preys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muscatine and Dizenfeld nearly ended up battling it out with the second Harvard-Radcliffe team, Maude Wood and Tucker Boynton. But Wood and Boynton fell prey to the Green in the semifinals by a 10-5 score. The pair nearly went the distance after a 10-2 victory against Yale and a close 11-9 win against Williams...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Tennis Teams Fare Well in Two Tourneys | 10/8/1974 | See Source »

Doddering Prey. With extraordinary skill, Amis manages to have fun with such things as Marigold's fear of losing her memory, Zeyer's stroke-induced nominal aphasia. (Nouns escape him and periphrasis ensues, with a passport, for example, becoming "the thing you have to show when you leave a country.") Even Shorty's interior dialogues with his own bowels are put to comic use, along with the fact that old people are often mean and silly, and fall down easily. Amis pursues his doddering prey with tiny twists of plot: through the use of stink bombs, squirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Geriatricks | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...archives the complete folders are kept in acid-free, nearly airtight boxes, safe from dust and pollution though prey to heat and humidity...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: Law Gives Students Access to Files. . . . . .And All That's Stored Within | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...have interfered with the whales' highly sensitive, sonar-like echo-location system, which enables them to spot schools offish and other objects. The whales' hearing is an essential part of the system, and if it is badly impaired, the scientists say, the whales can neither locate any prey nor avoid hazardous shoals or beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whales on the Beach | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

Just remember, there's a reason that none of the groups who prey upon you attack upperclassmen as openly and directly. Don't be suckered into buying a lot of junk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Get Suckered, They're Slick | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

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