Word: preys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terrified, Josie-Lee went to the other woman again, to plead for her husband. Said the girl: "He's anybody's prey. If I get him, I'll keep him." As stonily, Albert said: "I've worked all my life. It's time I was enjoying myself." He asked Josie-Lee to divorce him. At last she agreed. Last week she was back on the farm with the children. Albert had married the girl, lost his war job, headed somewhere away from Tennessee...
...reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
...Paul de Kruif felt his considerable powers waning. His customary four-mile trot along a Lake Michigan beach slowed down to a walk. Three or four hours with the double-bitted ax and cross-cut saw were all he could stand. He tired easily, slept fitfully, found himself a prey to causeless fears...
...droned in on their fixed bomb-run courses over the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya and the Musashino-Nakajima factory in a Tokyo suburb. The big planes met them with a hail of fire, shot down 136. The remaining 37 fell to the Mustangs, which had to chase their prey. Five U.S. bombers and two fighters were lost...
Economic pressure, not anti-Americanism, is behind the thievery. The Chinese people are being crushed between poverty and inflation. Rural bandits prey on their own people with hair-raising savagery...