Word: preys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corpuscle). Three or four hours later, a second stage begins, during which lymphocytes decrease and monocytes (another kind of white corpuscle) multiply and migrate from the blood into the solid tissue. Cells and blood begin increased production of enzymes (digestive substances), opsonins (blood substance which makes bacteria an easy prey for fighter cells), and other protective materials. "I would compare the action of our serum," says the professor, "with the action of a match causing a conflagration...
...details were given. It was still the Army's secret where the Liberators were based, how the lumbering, deadly gulls operated, or how they spotted their prey on the broad Atlantic...
...first time the big, jagged teeth of the Smith-Connally-Harness Act bit down. They caught not their intended prey, mastodon John L. Lewis, but 30 small-fry officers and members of United Mine Workers locals...
...millions, less interested even in great wealth, than she was in getting good parts and doing them as well as she knew how without interference. That, accordingly, was the only basis on which to approach her. And on that basis, for twelve months, David Selznick sedulously stalked his prey...
...result, Faulkner points out, is to render the bare soil a ready prey to drought or erosion by rain. Appalled at the damage done by the moldboard plow during its 200-year history, Faulkner observes that with all their machinery U.S. farmers get less yield per acre than Chinese peasants...