Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...garrisons, U.S. opposition to partial disclosure may have been a blunder. Scarcely had the Security Council rumpus subsided when the figures were revealed by the New York Times's military analyst Hanson W. Baldwin. One interesting point: in China (wildly decried by Russia and her friends as a prey to U.S. imperialism), the U.S. maintains only 29,000 troops, while Russia has 75,000 in China's northern provinces...
Army ants march through tropical forests in narrow, hurrying columns or large sweeping masses. Some are going out to battle, others returning with prey, i.e., food for the central colony. Their captures are mostly the young of other insects, but few creatures, large or small, dare brave the ferocious army ant in his full military array...
...Francisco's aquiline old Amadeo Peter Giannini, whose $5,538 million, 493-branch Bank of America is the world's largest private bank (TIME, April 15), circled low for another capture. His prey: the $360 million, 31-branch Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles...
...game hunter in pith helmet, khaki shorts and orange jacket stalked along the railroad platform. His prey: Princeton men, Class of 1925. His quarry was expressed by jeep or taxi to class headquarters-in a vacant lot on University Place, decked out now like a carnival site...
There are rides on plaster elephants, Hindu immolation ceremonies, Chinese opium hells, Japanese circuses, storms at sea, pistol shots, gas explosions, collapsing railway bridges, Indian raids, eagles swooping down on human prey. It's pretty fast & furious horseplay, but not quite enough...