Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...therapy and by relationships in which it is the doctors who must not be antagonized, Jim Downs finally pretends love for his wife so as to be released into her custody-which means held permanently in her clutches. Hence the title; the shrike is a bird that impales its prey on thorns...
...cabinet, Syria's first in three weeks. Dawalibi, a bearded law professor with a French wife, is a man of accumulated hates. He is anti-British, anti-Israeli, anti-American. He once said that "the Arabs would prefer a thousandfold to become a Soviet republic rather than a prey to world Jewry...
Besides spears, she used hooks, nets and poison to catch her prey. Often great sharks cruised along beside her. They never took even a nibble, but once when her husband came to visit, she saw a big barracuda looking at him fixedly with one round eye. Barracudas' minds are not hard to read. Fish-wise Dr. Clark realized just in time that this one had mistaken her husband's white sneakers for two small, edible fish. She got him into the boat before the barracuda could swallow either of them...
...manufacturers of loudspeakers and electrical equipment. The lonophone also has another talent, which should intrigue the military: it can be used as a microphone sensitive both to ordinary sounds and to ultrasonic vibrations. This should make it useful in submarine warfare, where ultrasonic ranging leads the hunters to their prey...
...Ellsworth was using dope, and she was freed. But the Tribune and Reporter Browning dumped her, fast. Norma Lee, "disillusioned . . . and also much wiser," wrote a red-faced story for Page One. It was too late to stop the second installment of her Sunday series (which told how sharpers prey on beauty queens). It had already been printed and appeared this week. Said Newshen Browning: "I've finally learned why hardboiled reporters get that...