Word: preys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trees and Thieves. Like many cities, Washington is toiling to stamp out the world's oldest profession. One reason is that prostitutes' customers, including some of the capital's hordes of visitors, are easy prey to mugging as an unexpected part of their transaction. One common police technique involves male plainclothesmen, who arrest girls who solicit them. For the past three months, Washington has been reversing the process by using three female decoys to catch the male customers...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (I).-Mass? made one of the strongest attacks on the decision, calling it "madness." Speaking in Boston yesterday, he said that the President has fallen prey to the illusion that drove another from office-the illusion of an American military victory in Southeast Asia...
...that he has been expelled from the union, Solzhenitsyn has engaged a Swiss lawyer, Fritz Heeb, to balk what he regards as "the exploitation and distortion" of his work by publishers in the West. In Zurich last week, Heeb told TIME: "Solzhenitsyn has no intention of becoming the easy prey of unscrupulous publishers. He intends to take legal action, if necessary, to prevent the misuse of his name and the unauthorized publication of his work." Heeb described the charge that Solzhcnitsyn's royalties have gone to "anti-Soviet organizations" as malicious and false...
Some 100 million years ago, when huge dinosaurs still trod the earth, the skies were dominated by a creature equally awesome: the fish-eating Pteranodon. Endowed with a wingspread of 25 ft.* but extremely short, weak legs, the bizarre reptile clearly had to fly to spot and capture its prey. Yet the construction of its wings (unsuitable for continuous flapping) and its large size have long seemed to zoologists almost insurmountable obstacles to flight. "How this animal could get itself into the air from level ground," wrote Harvard Paleontologist Alfred Romer, "is difficult to understand...
...extensive printing business is in the red, and the books division barely survived a bungled attempt to computerize its warehousing and accounting operations. Faced with dwindling resources and lackluster profits despite annual revenues of $416 million, Cudlipp last month invited Reed to step in rather than let I.P.C. fall prey to unwanted takeover. Reed has long had close ties with I.P.C., which at one time owned 44% of the paper company's stock. In 1963, Cecil King himself served as Reed's chairman. The present chairman, Sidney T. ("Don") Ryder, a former financial editor, came from I.P.C...