Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Falcons have an impressive history. More than 4,000 years ago they were used for hunting by the Chinese. Falconry (the art of directing a falcon to take off, attack its prey and return to the extended arm of its trainer) was the sport of kings throughout the Middle Ages...
...Easy Prey. Forthwith Dingell introduced a bill making a Korean beer issue mandatory. Then the Blatz Brewing Co. of Milwaukee sent the Secretary of the Army a telegram offering 600,000 cans of beer absolutely free of charge. Not to be outdone, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. offered several vatfuls of free beer, too. At that, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., rose in Denver before the 76th convention of her sisterhood to launch a heated counterattack...
...half to two-thirds of the troops in the Army, said President Colvin, passed their rations on to "drunkards." She intimated strongly that these lamentable souses, fairly gurgling with borrowed suds, would fall easy prey to a cruel enemy...
...gentleman's gentleman in England, then becomes a real valet masquerading in the Wild West as a British earl. He caricatures snobbery and braggadocio, unfailingly spills tea trays all over an English hostess, unwittingly courts death at the hands of a cowboy villain (Bruce Cabot) and becomes the prey of a pack of mongrels drafted for a sagebrush foxhunt...
Screen Test. Last year, Rome sent to Sicily hard-eyed Colonel Ugo Luca, a World War II Italian intelligence officer. With a special task force of 2,000 picked men, mostly bachelors, Luca set about combing Sicily for his prey...