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Word: preys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second later she is up and mincing forward as purposefully pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular arabesques of Theda Bara, flicks a shapely backside at her prey, slides out of a pair of lace panties, and departs northward to bump and grind in the old-fashioned tradition of burlesque. Pleased and bewildered, Ballplayer Joe sits happily helpless through it all, and in the end goes back to his wife, just as he intended from the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Devil's Disciple | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...trying to outrun a mob of whites. Less than a hundred yards from us the chase ended. We saw clubs and fists descending to the accompaniment of savage shouting and cursing. Suddenly a voice cried: 'There goes another nigger!' Its work done, the mob went after new prey. The body with the withered foot lay dead in a pool of blood on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: The Colored Man's White | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Communist police plucked him off and sent him back. Later, an official at the Soviet School No. i called him in and showed him a letter directed to his father, who was on a trip to Moscow. The letter advised Lt. Col. Lysikov that Valery had fallen prey to "dangerous American influences," and had been formally condemned for them by the local youth group. In the corridors after the interview, Valery heard a girl whisper that he was going to be sent back to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Boogy-Voogist | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...guided-missile news. He had glowing words about the Falcon, an air-to-air missile with an electronic brain. Falcons will be carried by interceptors and fired at enemy bombers as much as five miles away. Then the electronic brain will take over, and the Falcon will track its prey across the sky, supersonically following every move the enemy makes to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Missiles with Minds | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Fool's Day. The characters are a bustling "congress of all kinds of that multiform pilgrim species, man . . . farm-hunters and fame-hunters, heiress-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, happiness-hunters, truth-hunters and still keener hunters after all" these hunters." The multiform hunters are uniform prey; they exist only to be duped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Misanthrope | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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