Word: preys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...falcon dropping on its prey whistles like a dive-bomber, kills its victim in mid-air with one powerful rake of its talons, sometimes swoops to catch the dead bird before it hits ground. Trained, a falcon will fly free (at 100 m.p.h.) to pounce on game birds. The U.S. can use falcons, as other armies cannot, without endangering its own homing pigeons. Reason: the U.S. has developed night-flying homing pigeons...
...movies as to any other business. The race to get Shaw's plays on film began with the handicap of the author's life expectancy. Then Miss Hiller, one of the cinema's few sensitive and commanding actresses and Shaw's favorite leading lady, fell prey to long, grave illness...
Into this them O'Neill has woven all the suspense possible. His main implement is the drum which begins to throb at the end of the first act and continues throughout, beating faster and faster as the natives come closer to their prey. To the drum he adds the visions of the fleeing Emperor, and in the murky forest appear the ghost figures of the men that Brutus Jones has killed. At each of these Jones fires a shot out of the precious six that he has until at last he shoots the sixth--a silver bullet he had saved...
...soon as the second half started, however, Captain Franny Simpson's men seemed to spring to life while the Princeton Tiger was lying in wait for the final pounce on its prey. Harvard grabbed 13 straight points to jump to a four point lead before Princeton scored...
Britain's case against India is that India must help to preserve the Empire, for if the Empire falls India will become a prey to less enlightened powers. After victory will come Dominion status. Behind this reasoning lies the cogent fact that one-fourth of Britain's overseas wealth is invested in this brightest jewel in her crown. "Two out of ten Englishmen depend on India," said Winston Churchill...