Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else would do it if we did not? Think of the hundreds of thousands of foreigners dumped into our city. They are too old to go to school. There is not a mugwump in the city who would shake hands with him. They are alone, ignorant strangers, a prey to all manner of anarchical and wild notions...
Because they evade taxes and otherwise violate state and federal laws, moonshiners are the constant prey of federal and state officials. But policing them is like policing weeds. With their portable stills, copper coils, sugar and corn, they are suddenly in or out of business on any ridge or in any gully. In recent years, with demand increased because of high taxes (up to 56% of the purchase price) on legal liquor, moonshiners have been working overtime. Last year revenuers cooled 22,913 stills in the U.S. But they missed even more. The ones they missed cooked an estimated...
...black-masked bird with unsavory instincts, the shrike impales its prey on a thorn. In human form, the impaler is Ann Downs (tautly played by June Allyson), the impaled victim is husband Jim (Ferrer), the thorn their marriage. In flashbacks, the wife is shown mothering and dominating docile Jim. When his theatrical career crumbles for want of ever more inner props, Jim tries, in despair, to attach himself to another woman (Joy Page). But her reluctance to play Mom finally drives him to a jar of sleeping pills...
Foreign-owned public utilities in Latin America are a chosen prey of nationalizers and a favorite target of Communists. For their troubles most of them earn slim profits. Returns average only 3% a year on investment, compared to 9% for manufacturers and about 20% for oil producers. But now Mexico has launched a new policy to give utilities a break. Reversing the long anti-utility trend, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wants to encourage foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation...
...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...