Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most sensational animal acts in Manhattan's history. Jackie leaped out of his cage, in the basement of Madison Square Garden while it was being cleaned, strolled forth, spied one Joseph Knapp, a truck driver, chased him up a flight of stairs and treed his prey atop a telephone booth. Foiled for the moment, Jackie lay down beside the lobby's Eighth Avenue doors, put his head on his paws and spent an hour staring moodily at horrified passers-by on the sidewalk outside before he allowed trainers to chase him back to his cage...
Turk's Private War. The cops pulled their prey into daylight and eyed him warily. "Have you a gun?" one asked. The man coyly examined himself, peeked inside his undershirt with a smile. "No," he said. The cops let their man dress and breakfast on ham & eggs, then carted him off triumphantly to Amsterdam. At last they had captured the notorious Captain Raymond ("Turk") Westerling, international buccaneer and soldier of misfortune...
Yale men need no yonger pad the streets of defenseless, helpless prey to any passing mugger...
...largely as the products of their times. This heyday of witch burnings, black Masses (i.e., profane renderings of the Catholic Mass) and Devil worship, writes Belgian Scholar Emile Brouette, represented "the dawn of the false empire of Satan in a Europe gripped by religious and moral crisis and a prey to social unrest and political insecurity...
...Elizabeth, N.J., with photographs of a real Moby Dick: an albino sperm whale harpooned off Peru several months ago by Gunner Henrik Nilsen. The whale was a 56-ton patriarch, all milky white with a bluish tinge around the tail. Gunner Nilsen struck first, lived to see his prey cut up and rendered...