Word: preys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traditionally, divas are prey to harmless superstitions. Lily Pons, born with a caul on a Friday the 13th, counts 13 her lucky number. She asks for room 1313 in hotels, buys souvenirs (like South American birds) by the baker's dozen; her house in Silvermine, Conn. bears the street number 13. So, by her and Kosty's account, she held out for 13 proposals of marriage, then straightway accepted. They were married in June...
...Professor Hansen is right and his conclusion is amply buttressed with statistics the Leach-Conant line is knocked into a cocked hat. There is no reason why South America must, for economic reasons, fall prey to the Nazis. As Hansen points out, "The Western Hemisphere contains within itself all the essential materials men need for enjoying a higher standard of living than any so far attained." Going to war now just to keep Hitler out of South America is from the standpoint of national defense totally unnecessary. There's more than one way to skin...
...Pindus Mountains the Italians were reported to have sent tanks and other mechanized equipment. The Greeks used horse cavalry, played hide & seek with the invaders in territory their troopers knew like the backs of their hands. The Italians, they reported, were mousetrapped and divided into small units, became easy prey of Greek mountain infantry...
Chief significance of long-nosed General de Gaulle's efforts to nail down French colonies on Africa's west coast is that, in Axis hands, those colonies could base raiders to prey on Britain's supply line to Cape Town, Australia and around through the Red Sea to Egypt. Having failed at Dakar, the De Gaullists were pressing their luck elsewhere, as much as anything to keep colonists from succumbing to Axis pressure and Vichy subservience. The distance is too great, through too country, for Gabon or the Cameroons to serve as an alternative point of ingress...
...arrow hunting is encouraged by U. S. conservation authorities, because kills are few & far between. A bowman must get within 75 yards of his prey before he lets fly, and even close shots often get sidetracked by a twig. In the 25 years he hunted with bow & arrow, Chicago's late Arthur Young bagged almost every species of big game on the American continent, but the U. S. has few Arthur Youngs. Last year, during Michigan's 15-day bow & arrow season, only four deer were shot...