Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine and those refugees in DP centers in Europe as communistic. Professor Elliott said he spoke as an academic irresponsible. A knowledge of the facts of the situation forces one to agree with Professor Elliott's own assessment of his speech. It would seem that he has fallen prey to the very insidious propaganda being spread by the British in their attempts to wreck the partition scheme...
...been said that the mark of a good editorial policy is that it will admit its mistakes; that's what we're going to do now, if only to get into the big leagues. The policy of this paper, so invariably sound, fell prey to an error that has on occasion snared such august journals as the New York Times or the Yale Daily News; it became a false Cassandra...
...keep our lead and increase it. . . . New ideas require not only inspiration and perspiration but information. . . . It would be nothing short of a major national catastrophe if through lack of an informed public opinion America's atomic enterprise should drift into the doldrums, should fall prey to ignorance or panic or indifference or petty politics...
Some fell prey to a great, dull hopelessness. In Manhattan's garment district, where it often takes 15 minutes to go a block through trucks, cabs and darting pushcarts, a taxi driver said: "We're beat. We got expressions just like people in Europe. It used to be you could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.' They don't even get out to look at a fender...
...live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse thieves. With feet bound in leaves, to make no tracks, the children do the villains out of their horses, their boots, their food, their water; they shadow their prey pitilessly in their effort to get out of the wilderness...