Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victims of radiation sickness (e.g., after an atomic bombing) are likely to die of anemia because the blood-building properties of the bone marrow are damaged. In everyday medical practice, X-ray dosages have to be worked out with utmost care to keep the patient from falling prey to radiation sickness. Treatment of cancer is often hampered by this limitation...
Scientists have known for years that bats navigate by sonar. Like destroyers hunting down a submarine, they send out pulses of sound and steer by the echoes that bounce back from obstacles or prey. In the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Dr. Donald R. Griffin of Cornell University adds some new details about bat navigation...
...Hudson River shad, are a notably perishable commodity; no matter how brightly they may gleam when they are hauled into public view, they have a disconcerting tendency to spoil if they are left in the sun. Those who do not go gracefully to an early grave often fall easy prey to baldness, fallen arches and the horrors of earning a living. Even if they avoid relief rolls, and skid-road bars, they are still apt to end up squirting old ladies with water pistols at American Legion conventions...
...Though a more independent Bao-Dai is no guarantee of a Viet Nam safe from Communist conquest, such independence is the best chance that France and the U. S. have to promote democracy in Indo-China. Without this autonomy, Viet Nam, Even with U. S. assistance, will remain easy prey for Indo-China's Communists...
...proclaimed. Before his government fell a year later, he had given France government-enforced collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, vacations with pay, regulated banks, a nationalized arms industry. Later, some men said that Blum's alliance against fascism had weakened and divided France, made it an easy prey to fascist aggression...