Word: preys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struggle for a tolerant society -- not only one in which the big racial injustices are cured but one in which the strong do not prey on the weak, the beautiful do not insult the ugly and the thin do not prevail over the fat -- is a worthy goal. But neither resources nor public sympathy is limitless. Treating the discrimination against someone who is fat alongside that of someone who is a paraplegic is part of an effort by special-interest groups to make all suffering equal so that all remedies will be. It is a trend that would make...
Senior forward Sean Wenham and freshman defender Marco Ferrari both saw their first varsity action of their careers; junior Keith McLean, playing in only his second-ever game, pumped in the goal that put the Crimson ahead to stay, that is, until the final two minutes, when Harvard fell prey to some more Raider magic...
...need to rest, of course, falls prey to the call to minister. In a 12-day stretch last June, he visited John Connally in a Texas hospital, escaped to a quiet hotel in southern France to find the time and space to work on his memoirs, immediately returned to Texas to preach at Connally's funeral, flew back to France, then to California to conduct Pat Nixon's funeral, then returned to France once again, too tired to get much work done. "I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down," he says, "whether you want to slow down...
...when students consider joining an outside health club, the message is caveat emptor: ready to prey on the discontent of Harvard students, the health club industry casts its lures and students are sometimes blinded to the fine print by the glare of bright machinery...
...search out the right word for an ad or a statement to the press. He is also smart to the point of cynicism, and there are times when there is something almost vulpine in his manner: his eyes are preternaturally bright, his head constantly aswivel, ever alert for prey or peril. But mostly what you sense about him is the loyalty and the passionate convictions of an outsider who has been taken into a club that might never have admitted...