Word: preyed
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...talked nonchalantly of death, promised to "haunt the hell" out of the Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey to another ailment. He began running a fever and developed a blood clot in the lungs. Doctors at New Orleans' Foundation Hospital discovered that he was partially paralyzed...
Talent with a Taint. Eddie Lewis, the narrator, is a pressagent, prey to the pressagent's stock neurosis: Shall I go on prostituting my talent for dough or shall I bravely become a Serious Writer? A nice girl, Beth, thinks Eddie should be brave, but his boss, Nick Latka, has a big thing for him to build up-a giant Argentine with a glass jaw who can be babied and ballyhooed into a heavyweight contender. This game appeals to Eddie and so does his promised cut of the proceeds, so he takes leave of Beth and swings...
...wonder that Joan's mind began to come apart. A prey to confused motives, she tried to "save" the girl from Heflin when she was really trying to save him for herself. She also gradually became convinced that she had murdered Massey's wife. Even more frightening hallucinations followed. After a fierce burst of melodrama, Joan winds up on the hospital cot. The cautious prognosis: she is a schizophrene, but conceivably curable...
...stays angry too long, ulcers may result. The fury or sulking fits aroused by threats to a man's life or his love, said Dr. Wolff, sometimes affects his nose: it may swell up and hurt. A "mad" nose, caught with its resistance down, is easy prey to colds and other infections...
...enemies. Not all were driven as far as Giuseppe Rapelli, Christian Democratic Labor leader who tried to break Communist Giuseppe di Vittorio's iron grip on the labor unions, and is now in the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But all seem paralyzed to ineffectually, a prey to fear and doubt...