Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every evening before Mr. Smythe went home to Brooklyn he baited delicately with his broad fingers a tiny mousetrap, left it on his desk to surprise one of the myriad night inhabitants of the Produce Exchange Building. Such minor prey interested Mr. Smythe not unnaturally, because his business was almost wholly concerned with the minutest values in finance-those of forgotten or extinct securities...
Adolf Hitler had one of his better tantrums last week. Once more the pudgy but intuitive little Führer put the fear of Wotan into baffled British statesmen, and once more France was a prey to apprehensive fury as the Berlin-Rome Axis...
Back soon after the play to sit in my window and look down on the river bank, with the open cars whizzing down the drive, the reflections of the street lamps peering out of the black water, and the hatless girls ambling along stalking their nocturnal prey...
...technically legal venture in privateering. And it was not Kidd's idea in the first place. Robert Livingstone of Albany and Lord Bellomont, Governor of New York, concocted the scheme, got Kidd a letter of marque from William III and sent him out on the Adventure Galley to prey on pirates and incidentally make his backers some money...
...nests and young they can find. If necessary, new hunters will be sent out." Four days later Warden Eckert's term expired and Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark replaced him with a deserving Democrat who, having had no experience with wild life, was expected to let eagles prey in peace...