Word: preys
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...entertainment, he had said: horses, peanuts, characters in the crowd. Sounds like benign fun. But suddenly ghosts emerged from my family’s history: kids from the block, distant cousins, parents of my pre-school friends, characters from every facet of the past—all had fallen prey to their addictions, borrowed money from everyone around, and finally become official pariahs, excommunicated.Sufficiently scared, I steered clear of gambling (or at least, didn’t seek it out) for five semesters, until a slow reading period night in January found me at a friend’s frat...
...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...
...Sicily. Though many Italian immigrants had come to the U.S. to avoid just such oppression as the Mafia offers, a few among them formed a new Mafia in the new country. In the crowded 'Little Italys' of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the thugs found easy prey ... Prohibition offered the transplanted Mafiosi the chance they could not have made for themselves. Only they had the organization that could capitalize on the potential of bootlegging ... There was enough intraorganizational feuding to fill a graveyard ... To stop the killing, said [the Mob's modern founding father Salvatore] Maranzano, the gangs...
...white supremacist, anti-Semitic web site called the “Vanguard News Network” (VNN) was referring to her as the prey of “Jew parasites.” According to the site, upon her entrance to Harvard last fall, Carey unknowingly became a victim of “higher Jewry and itz [sic] accompanying Jew indoctrination...
...airlifted to a hospital who thinks he owes us," says an officer who serves as the unit's intelligence chief, "and who comes in with something that we put with 18 other pieces of the puzzle, and we finally get a clear picture." They're still waiting for the prey to come into focus...