Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uniform Crime Reports, which naggingly showed a 16% leap in serious offenses. J. Edgar Hoover's statistics placed last year 7% ahead of 1966 in rapes, 9% in aggravated assaults, 11% in murders and 28% in robberies. Two out of every 100 Americans, said the FBI, fell prey to a major felony. This chilling statistic is misleading as an index for the nation as a whole, since most crime is concentrated in the limited demographic area of the city ghetto...
...huge sperm whale. After that came a battle off Cape Finisterre that lasted several hours, reported Madrid's daily ABC, and when all the thrashing and splashing were over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove it decorating the cabins of his boat...
...moth's spikes, a scant 26 ten-thousandths of an inch long, provide it with an automatic lifesaving device. Without them, says Callahan, the slow and conspicuous insects would probably take wing during daylight. And if they did so, they would make themselves easy prey for birds...
...last week after Frey told Ford and Knudsen of his plans, he quietly flew off to Manhattan for a string of job interviews. Not that he is really pounding the pavements. Prey's requirements: chief operating officer of a medium-sized company, preferably grounded in technology and involved in the design, manufacture and sale of a product-and, presumably, in need of a few better ideas...
Still, there is a certain substance behind this elusive shadow play. Osborne has drawn a portrait of the artist in a middle-aged funk, a prey to the 5 a.m. hoo-ha's, chronically in pain, unappeasably romantic, listening in self-pity and dread to time's metronome ticking away with deadly austerity. Paul Scofield profiles Laurie with meticulous care, but he cannot quite manage that sudden, sneering, swooping descent into vulgarity that Osborne demands. When Scofield has to talk about some woman giving "the golden sanitary towel award," he seems to be holding the line...