Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size (750 tons) submarine, designed and built with one mission: to hunt and destroy other submarines. Only a little more than half as big as the Navy's fleet-type sub, the K-i's job is to lie in ambush along enemy submarine lanes, spot its prey with sonar gear, then nail the enemy with homing torpedoes equipped with electronic ears. It is one answer to the threat of Russia's big and still growing underwater fleet. Said Rear Admiral C. B. Momsen, veteran submariner: "I can say from my own experience that there...
...flying bombers are easy prey for fighters that can find them. If an enemy knows that an efficient spotting system is in operation, he is more likely to keep his bombers at extreme altitudes, where they can be tracked by radar...
...watchers were unavailable for comment last night, but the furred marauder has taken a considerable toll. Unlike the duck hawk, which dives upon its prey at speeds approaching 200 miles per hour, the cat relies on stealth. This leaves time for crowds to gather, and nature's drama is sometimes played before large crowds of class-goers...
...falcon . . . dashes away as quickly as its hood is removed and the hawker releases the bird from his wrist. It promptly mounts to a height of perhaps half a mile, and "waits on" in circling flight above its owner until prey is flushed, whereupon the falcon dives to the attack in its incredibly swift stoop. It is not unusual for a peregrine 2,000 feet in the sky to get down and kill its quarry pigeon before the prey has traveled 100 yards. A breath-taking sight...
...human flesh, but the number has been much reduced at present." It is unclear whether the reduction was in tigers or districts. A lion across the aisle glares from his glass cage. "In the wild state lions usually live up to their reputation of daring and ferocity. They prey upon large animals, especially zebras and antelopes, and in occasional instances have acquired the man-eating habit...