Word: preys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, Sewall followed the tracks of a huge elephant, knowing the size of the animal because its height is exactly twice the circumference of its footprint. In the middle of the afternoon he caught sight of his prey in ten foot elephant grass and drew a bead with his .256 rifle. The first shot hit between the elephant's oar and eye and as the animal crumpled to the ground, another tusker charged from the grass. A charging elephant is an impossible shot because of the thick skull covering the front...
...other hand, responsible Indian leaders do not wish to hamper the British war effort because the collapse of Britain would make India-like French Indo-China-the prey of the land-grabbing dictators. Meeting last week at Poona, the Indian National Congress Committee took cognizance of a tight situation when it adopted an anti-war but pro-British policy, elected as its leader by 192 to 7 votes the only man in India sufficiently astute to reconcile these two conflicting views-Mahatma Gandhi...
...close to French Indo-China last week that the thought of it no longer caused alarm. Japan, self-appointed guardian of "Greater East Asia," had left no doubt that she intended to fall upon the fat prey to the south, but two factors caused her to hold her hand: uncertainty regarding the outcome of Hitler's war in Europe, and the presence of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific. The risk of becoming involved both in China and French Indo-China before Britain was definitely on her back, plus the probability of a complete U. S. embargo...
Caught off guard and inadequately protected, the British aircraft carrier Glorious (22,500-ton sister ship of the Courageous, crew of 1,216) used as a base for air operations against Narvik, was an easy prey to the 11-inch guns of the Nazi warships, as were also the 19,840-ton transport null the 5,666-ton tanker Oilpioneer, and the destroyers Acasta and Ardent. The Allied Expeditionary Force began to evacuate...
There is a fascination about bombing raids. Some foolish atavistic fancy for birds of prey makes men stay out and watch successive waves of planes fly over, voiding their terrible little pellets. Even cowards do it. The most pathetic human race, the Chinese, do it. Last week they did it in Chungking, and died like flies...