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Word: preys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience. He would have told them that manipulation requires careful pacing, a dash of wit, and a lot of fervor. You've got to work and keep working, he would have said--you can't be sluggish or cowardly. It's all right to be simplistic and to prey upon people's most basic fears and desires, and it helps to be as perverse and merciless as possible, but you've got to have charisma...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Cloning A Disaster | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...stood there aghast, a loudmouthed woman with a reporter's notebook shoved me out of the way, and buzzard-like, bore down on her prey. "what is the name of this group in Ireland? Are you working with them? How can they hope to change anything...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Ireland's Peace Women | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...want these guys. For some reason they prey on that area. I definitely want these guys," Chafin said...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Police Stake Out Business School Area | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...plainclothes police moved into a quiet, middleclass, residential neighborhood of Milan last week. Squad cars crept inconspicuously into position to seal off a block-long stretch of the Via Negroli. Armed carabinieri stationed themselves behind parked cars and in the courtyard of the apartment buildhig at No. 30. Their prey: Corrado Alunni, 30, one of the ringleaders in the Red Brigades kidnaping and assassination of Christian Democratic Party Leader Aldo Moro last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bellissimo! | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...farmer (Playwright Sam Shepard). Tired of "nosing around like a pig" and infuriated by his employer's wealth, Bill decides to use the ravishing Abby to bilk the farmer out of his fortune. No sooner does the scheme get going, however, than Abby falls in love with her prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Night of the Locust | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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