Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappearance. The biggest search that the highlands have ever known failed to produce a trace of Thompson. No word of his presence has filtered down from the aborigine villages of the highlands. There has been no sign of Thompson's remains, which would certainly attract birds of prey. Hoping against hope, Thompson's friends have therefore concluded that he may still be alive, the abducted victim of some international intrigue...
...your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those who have kept a bullet to blow their brains out." After also relaying information about such things as the July 20 plot against Hitler and the development of the V-1 and V-2 rockets, Roessler ultimately became the prey of the Gestapo, which stumbled onto his existence by intercepting his radio messages to Moscow. Fortunately, the Gestapo had not intercepted the radio messages from the ten OKW officers, and so they remained undetected throughout the war. But Gestapo Boss Walter Schellenberg zeroed in on Roessler in Switzerland, and only...
...invariably the hero of his own self-created myth, and because he could write all his contem poraries under the table, his version of events tended to survive longer than anyone else's. The famous, ponderous six-volume biography by Moneypenny and Buckle, published in 1920, often fell prey to this charm beyond the grave. It also abetted the myth-later given its crudest expression in the George Arliss film of 1929-of Dizzy as a brilliant theatrical Jew, triumphing over early poverty and snobbery to create the British empire singlehanded and present it to Queen Victoria like...
...could not, to salvage it and its cargo. He succeeded so well that his firm, joined by two others, grew into Merritt-Chapman & Scott, the nation's largest corporation involved in marine salvage, and later a construction giant as well. But eventually, Merritt-Chapman & Scott itself fell prey to raiders of a modern sort. As a result, the company has been sinking slowly-to the point where its officers announced last week that they will propose liquidation when shareholders meet next month...
...cast, looking vaguely lost in Chagall's vast fantascapes, nonetheless performed elegantly. Mozart Specialist Josef Krips conducted manfully against the visual competition, and Baritone Hermann Prey's comical Papageno was as close to a show stealer as the conditions would permit. Chagall's whimsical spectacular notwithstanding, there was too much art and not enough Mozart...