Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the gang, whose leader had told the six to "get going" from the corner, began to hurl insults and beer bottles at them, five of the group hopped into the station wagon of George B. Cabot, Jr. '61. The sixth man fell prey to the thugs, who "Viciously beat him up," according to one of the Freshmen...
Guatemalans have historically been prey to political extremes, ranging from a long line of rightist dictators to the Communists' most successful infiltration of a Western Hemisphere republic. When Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas kicked the Reds out in 1954, he began building a new middle lane in the political road. Last week, half a year after the colonel's assassination by a crackpot guard, his moderate ideas went down to defeat, jabbed by the left and steamrollered by the right in an election which all sides agreed was the freest in the country's history...
...reasonably sincere Catholic, I must admit that your Dec. 23 article on holy hucksters certainly hit home. It is an unfortunate fact that the manufacturers and distributors of pseudoreligious trinkets find ready prey among many gullible Catholics. The church is strongly in favor of the use of rosaries, medals, and such aids in the worship of God, but the abuse of this custom, as practiced by these unscrupulous individuals, constitutes a grave offense against everything the church stands...
...explosive beginning has included an overbearing headmaster, an overstuffed businessman, and an oversmug dictator. All were neatly vaporized before the war, during which the bomber quit his activities temporarily because killing dropped from an art to an occupation. When we meet him now, he is back in practice; his prey is Sir Gregory Upshott, an international water-muddier. Sim stalks him intently and wittily, particularly in a demonstration of chessmanship during which Sim deftly diverts a policeman's attention while moving a dead body...
Infra-red technique is developing rapidly, and most of the interesting details are still secret. It has been announced that certain air-to-air guided missiles seek their prey by feeling for heat rays and steering toward their source, which may be the exhaust or warm wing edges of a fast airplane. Long-range missiles can probably feel for enemy cities, and reconnaissance missiles may some day return from high-arching flights with heat pictures of an enemy's secret factories and bases. An obvious steering system for antimissile missiles would be a heat-sensitive device to feel...