Word: preys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the samurai hordes poured across the Sea of Japan into Korea almost four centuries ago, a legendary Korean kisaeng (courtesan) named Gae Non vowed to kill the invaders' leading general. She toasted her prey at an outdoor party, then bound herself to him with a sash as a token of eternal love. A moment later, so the story goes, she plunged into a nearby ravine, dragging the general with her to death and fulfilling her vow. In Seoul these days, the kisaeng response to a new and different kind of Japanese invasion is a lot more affectionate...
...Scotch is heavily dependent on his broker. No daily price lists on Scotch trades are published in the U.S., and the Securities and Exchange Commission has been unable to establish regulatory authority over the business, although it contends that the warehouse receipts are investment contracts. Scotch plungers also are prey to arcane worries; for example, if much of the investor's whisky evaporates in storage, the price of his barrel goes down. If all the uncertainties drive an investor to drink, he cannot even readily imbibe his own booze. To bring it into the U.S. he would, in effect...
...fact that syphilis was Ibsen's symbol rather than his subject. The disease stands for all that is twisted and stunted when life is held in thrall by narrow, provincial social conventions. People in such a society, Ibsen shows us, are not so much a prey to quiet desperation as to desperate hypocrisy...
...team fell prey to weak doubles matches but won a close contest, 5-4. The Yardlings lost two of its three paired matches but proved strong in singles by wining four of six contests...
...hopes to be a dramatist of this latter school, but at present he lacks the specific gravity for it. He is more akin to the Saroyan who wrote lines like "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds?" He is also prey to Saroyan's easy sentimentality and that boozy euphoria that permits Saroyan's characters to bite on the nail of life and declare it to be a nougat...