Word: preying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down on him promptly fluttered a rain of protests. Bird-lovers argued that the golden eagle's chief prey is such small fry as rabbits, squirrels and woodchucks, that it feeds on larger animals only when they are dead or dying...
...heels, Erna seduces Colleret, an adjutant in the French Secret Service and is confirmed in her suspicions of Benoit. Unwittingly she falls in love with her prey only to find she has betrayed him to the German office. After heart-rending scenes in which both women vio to save their lover from tragedy, Benoit escapes the death trap. Erna is slain by her Prussian affiliate when captured, but Benoit and the post-mistress join hands unscathed...
...with dams, dikes, ditches. After the engineers will come a permanent corps of wardens, biologists, breeding experts. They will see that ducks get plenty of food and cover, will fight against botulism and other epidemics which sweep duck populations. They will destroy the crows, cats, coyotes and magpies which prey on ducks, ducklings and duck eggs. They will set up duck factories, plants of incubators and brooders where ducklings may be hatched by hundreds of thousands...
...officers and plot a course of action for the next twelve months, the Instrumental Clubs are facing two problems that have cast shadows of doubt over their future. For a group that was once the very button on Fortune's cap has sunk low indeed in her favors, falling prey to the twin troubles of changing musical tastes and of lethargy on the part of their members, and unless oxygen is quickly applied, the flame of life may go out entirely. Yet the Instrumental Clubs need only a few readjustments in their program, plus vigorous and enthusiastic leadership, to bring...
...never understood or cared for Pushkin's poetry, was hurt and annoyed by his fits of literary hibernation. Pushkin himself hastened the inevitable end. He challenged a young Frenchman, Baron d'Anthés, who had been making violent love to Natalya, but was robbed of his prey when d'Anthés sidestepped him by marrying Natalya's sister. When d'Anthés later returned to the attack, so did Pushkin; and this time the duel took place. Both men were hit, Pushkin fatally. Seven years after that, still-beauteous, Natalya married...