Word: preyed
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...from being a gullible prey for the adman's every gimmick, the African checks into quality and price before plunking down his hard-earned money, can be fanatically loyal to a product once he is won over. But his sense of values, his different cultural life, and his ignorance of many Western habits all conspire to make him a customer to test the ingenuity of the Madison Avenue adman. Hut-to-hut market research, for example, does not seem to work. A recent survey for brilliantine among upper-income Nigerians ($280 to $1,400 a year) showed that...
...prey was Captain Manuel Beatón, one of the growing number of officers in Castro's army who think that Communists have perverted and appropriated Castro's revolution. Beatón popped up on the Sierra's southern slope a fortnight ago, leading a band of 60 to 80 men. He reached an army garrison, captured arms...
Great mountains of gold? Flocks of captive women? Slaves? Or other prey...
...furious boil that marks the home of a lurking huchen. Come fall, he fashions a huchen Topf-a hook hidden in a clump of colored leather strings that his fish may mistake for a small school of river lampreys. By winter, he is so eager to have at his prey that he willingly pays $5 each day for a license, stalks off to battle with a reel big enough to tether a mule...
Paradoxically, the most effective ally of the flesh peddler was the prude. As a French police official explained, "The education of English girls is usually of such a strictly prudish character that, in their ignorance of the world, they offer themselves the easiest prey imaginable...