Word: preys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large as the familiar advertising type. They are 250 ft. long, inflated with 416,000 cubic feet of helium, can cruise 1,500 miles at a speed of 55 m.p.h. As a submarine pursuer the blimp has many an advantage over the plane. It can hover motionless over its prey, move along with it constantly whatever its speed, fly below ceiling in all but the foulest weather...
...repeated attempts from Dec. 18 to Dec. 25, submarines off the California coast sank but one U.S. vessel, damaged two, cleanly missed six. The Japanese could blame the poor marksmanship of their crews, the alertness of U.S. bomber patrols and the agility of their prey. U.S. defenses steadily improved. A Christmas Day communique credited a Western Defense Command bomber with two "apparently direct hits" on an enemy submarine, and bombers were said to have been in action on at least two other occasions. But one element of U.S. defense was woefully inadequate: none of the attacked ships was armed...
...West Coast, and then back again to Japan, it would have to take a large number of slow, highly vulnerable supply ships for the purpose of refueling and repair. With our Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor this could never be done, since the auxiliary ships would fall easy prey to American guns. The same holds true for an American attack on Japan. It is 3,394 miles from Honolulu to Yokohama, but the cruising radius of our fleet (the distance it can sail without auxiliaries is well under 3,000 miles. In other words, Japan could not fight a fleet...
...Harlem side streets and the hilly, wooded section of Central Park next to Harlem, bands of Negro and Puerto Rican boys prey on playing children, robbing them of bicycles, skates, wrist watches, clothes. When they rob a man, they often take his pants to forestall a chase...
...Rumanian gambler and lady-charmer, Boyer finds himself on the wrong side of the Mexican-California border, waiting for the papers which will enable him to cross the line. Discovering that marrying an American woman will speed up his visa, he sets out to make the necessary arrangements. The prey turns out to be an American school-marm. Olivia de Haviland, on a Mexican holiday. This marriage of convenience eventually results, as you might have guessed in the suave Boyer's falling for the theoretically naive charms of Miss brown of Azusa, California. Paulette Goddard, as the femme sinistre from...