Word: preys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lower animals fight from a variety of causes.. Some fight because, as beasts of prey, they live by killing and devouring. Animals may fight their own kind in a tussle over a mate or some choice morsel of food. They fight to defend their young, their homes, or their own lives. Some are aggressive and go about seeking what they may devour; others fight as a last resort when they are cornered...
...their husbands, harassed hotel managers in quest of a settlement, marines, FBI men, portly women judges and a bayoneted lady sniper from the Soviet Embassy. Every time one of the hostesses heads for the altar, yet another face appears with bad news. But the three girls snag their prey at last, and Washington subsides into routine pandemonium...
China's Army of 5,000,000 has less than 1,000 doctors (the U.S. aim is to have six and a half doctors for every 1,000 troops). Chinese soldiers are universally infested with lice, making them ready prey to typhus. Modern methods of camp sanitation are almost unknown. For every man wounded or killed, ten die of disease. (In the U.S. World War I army, only one died of disease for every 14 wounded or killed...
...consists of high, steep ridges covered with chest-high grass, alternating with valleys choked with jungle. The Japanese cling, animallike, to the jungle. The Marines prefer the ridges, from which their weapons, particularly artillery, can dominate the valleys. But they go down into the tangle to hunt out their prey...
Until recently chief of the cost analysis section of WPB, Saunders exploded the current rumors that the government has "released cost accountants like a swarm of locusts" to prey on business, occupying their time and decreasing their production...