Word: preys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Given continued U.S. and South Vietnamese air support, observers believe, the Cambodian army should be able to hold its own. An illustration of both the Cambodians' newfound staving power and the effectiveness of allied air support, reports TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, was the victory at the town of Prey Totung (pop. 6,000), which lies midway between Kompong Cham and Skoun on Route Seven...
...night of Dec. 11, a force of as many as 3,000 Communist soldiers struck at Prey Totung. They quickly seized the center of town and drove the 400 Cambodian soldiers there into the schoolyard, where they remained, surrounded and cut off, for five days. "Most of the time we could not even lift our heads," says Lieut. Colonel Srey Yar, the competent young local commander...
Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, TIME, because if it can happen to Bandy and the Bank of America, it can happen to you. And when some Mifflander declares that TIME is an outmoded institution, and therefore legitimate prey, will you merely report, for example, from one of the outposts of your empire, that your New York office was occupied and that its resident manager stood forlornly on the philosophical battlefield...
...wings," like those of the modern flying squirrel. They used those wings for gliding round their arboreal habitats and dodging foes. The other theory says that birds evolved from ground-dwelling reptiles that grew similar membranes, helping them to take increasingly longer leaps after insects and other fast-moving prey...
...fossils. It was the faint imprint of a horny sheath-or fingernail-like covering-on the three claws protruding from each of the wings of these ancient birds. Resembling the talons of a contemporary eagle, these razor-sharp, miniature scythes were obviously better suited for catching and slicing up prey than for scampering up the trunks of trees. Thus, Ostrom suggests, Archaeopteryx's lizard-like forebears probably launched themselves into the air from the ground-not from the limbs of ancient trees...