Word: preying
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...lettuce on his pushcart and pulled out a machine gun, four cars blocked the route of a black Daimler sedan. Out jumped a dozen men, who seized and clubbed two bodyguards and a chauffeur, and drove off triumphantly in the Daimler with their latest captive-and their biggest prey to date: British Ambassador to Uruguay Geoffrey Jackson...
...merely accused?more harshly than prisons do felons, who commit graver crimes. The jail mess is typified by New Orleans' Parish Prson, a putrid pen built in 1929 to hold 400 prisoners. It now contains 850?75% of them unsentenced. Money and guards are so short that violent inmates prey on the weak; many four-bunk cells hold seven inmates, mattresses smell of filth and toilets are clogged. Prisoners slap at cockroaches "so big you can almost ride them...
...Lions will be no easy prey for the Crimson. They placed second in the Nationals last year, and Bruce Soriano, a brilliant saberman, returns from that excellent team to lead an experienced saber contingent against the Crimson...
...heart conditions because of stress. The hartebeest population in Nairobi National Park is growing so fast that males must fight frequently for territory, thus disrupting their feeding habits. Even worse, because the national parks are not ecological units, there is no balance between food and animal number, predator and prey...
Tristana. Luis Bunuel's tale is about a young woman (Catherine Deneuve) who falls prey to the affections of her much older guardian (Fernado Rey). Comic (if not to the extent of The Milky Way ) and darkly surreal, this film presents Bunuel's unique vision of the shifting planes of morality...