Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vicky's ideas, unlike those of many cartoonists, are all his own. On the theory that "a cartoonist has to be passionately interested in politics," he pays frequent visits to the House of Commons to stalk his prey, make sure that his characters look like their caricatures. In 1949, after meeting Harry Truman for the first time in Washington, Vicky blurted: "I congratulate you." When Truman asked, "What for?" Vicky explained: "For looking more like my caricatures than I thought you did." In Vicky's gallery, Khrushchev looks like a Charles Addams rendering of a prizefighter; Lord Beaverbrook...
...portmanteau word, combining snake and shark, invented by Lewis Carroll for the ineluctable prey of his poem, "The Hunting of the Snark." One variety-the Boojum-had the power to make its hunter "softly and suddenly vanish away...
...also smell its prey without breathing. When the snake's forked tongue flicks in and out, it conveys odor-laden air to smell organs inside the mouth. After the snake has sunk its fangs in a small, warm animal, it does not try to hold it. The animal runs a few feet or yards until the poison brings it down. Then the snake follows by scent, flicking its delicate tongue, and starts the slow business of swallowing the meal. The injected venom contains a substance that starts the digestive process before the animal reaches the snake's stomach...
...Congress, giving Nehru a statewide majority. What the demonstration underlined for Nehru, however. was the real challenge of India's thousands of high-school and university students. Frustrated, their future inhibited, by India's mounting unemployment, they dabble in politics for lack of other preoccupations, are easy prey for anyone who wants to exploit their eagerness to participate in a new India in which they have yet to find their place...
...from Leo Hirsch field's bright, well-staffed office (15 full-time employees) lies a largely unknown world that is nevertheless a permanent part of U.S. sports. Backbone of that world are the bookies-the innumerable small "retailers" and the few large "wholesalers." Often on the run, often prey to mobsters muscling in on their business, the bookies have learned how to live on the shifting margins of the law. While bookmaking is illegal in all states except Nevada, federal law demands a 10% tax on all bets accepted. The bite is big enough to put any bookie...