Word: preys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government-granted privilege to large interests that keeps the prices of medical care, most food, union labor, postal service, transportation, etc., and inf., higher than they would otherwise be in a competitive situation. These interests and the state thrive on theft and find the unlobbied public to be easy prey. How one can expect the state under Nixon's care to be any gentler is beyond...
...PEREGRINE FALCONS. These birds of prey, which once numbered in the thousands all over the U.S., fell victim to pesticides, which made their eggshells too thin to survive, and now there are fewer than 200 pairs left (except in Alaska). "The impending demise of this beautiful falcon is one of the ecological tragedies of the modern age," says Zoologist Clayton M. White of Brigham Young University. White has helped set up the United Peregrine Society, which plans to build a sanctuary near Klamath Falls, Ore. The aim is to find the falcons' remote nesting places and remove the birds...
...best interests of the United States. Nothing that obstructed progress could be spared, and almost any activity of the Vietnamese people was an obstruction. Finally even the idea that the Vietnamese were human became intolerable, so the military, while physically destroying them, intellectually transformed them into animals, beasts of prey fit for disembowelment, target practice, endless incarceration, torture, and rape. "It's like someone invited you to their farm and said you can stay as long as you want, you can go hunting all you want, and have as much ammo as you want," said Sergeant Camil. "And the officers...
Springfield should be much easier prey for Harvard than the Hoosiers. The Chiefs only have two returning letterman one of whom was a freshman last year Starting at center for Springfield will be Bill Gregory, six ft. eight in., a sophomore with a fine outside shot. Gregory got into foul trouble early in Springfield's 71-70 victory over University of New Hampshire Monday night and only hauled in one rebound...
They can be amiable and unassuming by day, indistinguishable from other British teen-age girls. But at night they become birds of prey. Sometimes silently, sometimes shrieking, they swoop down in groups on unsuspecting victims in dark streets, at lonely bus stops and in deserted toilets. Kicking, biting, scratching, punching, they reduce the victim-usually another female-to hysteria and then disappear, stealing perhaps only a few pence. To Londoners, they are known as the bovver (cockney for bother, which in turn means fight) birds, the newest and in some ways the eeriest street gangs since the Teddy boys terrorized...