Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient pseudo-science of astrology, which attempts to predict the future by the motions of the planets, may have a bit of science in it, after all. This week Radio Corporation of America, no easy prey to superstition, announced in the RCA Review that it is successfully predicting radio reception by a study of planetary motions...
...paid smugglers $10 to sneak them over the line in automobile trunks. But most simply walked to the east or west of the International Bridge, jumped across the narrow New River, crawled through holes,in a 10 ft. wire fence, and scrambled up to U.S. soil. They were the prey of countless enemies. Robbers had killed some of them. Disease killed many more. Sometimes the unwary died sneaking rides atop 12-ft. hay trucks, which sped through 13-ft. underpasses on the highways...
Actress Bel Geddes still falls prey to many an uncertainty about her chosen career. Before Moon opened, she worried over whether she was too old for Patty. Now she is worried over whether she is not too immature for other parts. Actually, she has already resolved both doubts to the satisfaction of most critics. As the simple, unaffected Southern belle of Deep Are the Roots (1945), she had shown her capacity for serious drama; now she has shown her mastery of the peculiar demands of airy farce. Cornell, Bankhead, Hayes and Lawrence will not have to give way to Barbara...
Prof. Donald C. McKay (government)--"If we can have only one law the country will obviously be prey to inflation and paralysis, the Soviets will feel free to carry out the Hoover Plan, and we might as well look sharply each one to his own special interests...
...Paul Bowles, "The Sheltering Sky" and "The Delicate Prey" ("No moralist, I nevertheless feel crawly after reading stories in which a good healthy sexual relationship with a goat would be considered normal to the point of humdrum...