Word: moray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip spent hours along the Moray Firth soaking up the shoptalk of fishermen and boatbuilders. At night he would stand watch with coast guardsmen in their lonely huts high over the harbor. As a scholar he was only fair, but when he left school after four years he took with him the highest honor for seamanship...
...succession of lovers. When Mother Van Hard decided to be rid of her homely, cranky daughter who was an annual index to her mother's age, the Due de Morny, the lover of the hour, suggested that Sarah go on the stage. Her debut was unsensational, but de Moray's influence kept Sarah in theatrical circulation...
...last week a trailer truck backed up to the Aquarium, rumbled away with 1,000 fish for the Marine Park Aquarium in Boston. A six-foot green moray refused to go, hid under a rock for an hour until a keeper warily prodded him out. Another 2,000 fish left for aquariums in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington. The sea lions now rest uneasily in the lions' house at The Bronx Zoo, where some 4,000 smaller fish and reptiles will join them. They will live in the Zoo until a new Aquarium is built at Coney Island. Another...
...sown in a band varying from 30 to 40 miles wide, leaving eight miles of safe water between mines and shore. Secret alleys through the mine field will be left for British Naval craft, but neutral ships will have to use the Dover or Kinnaird Head (Moray Firth) entrances, heavily guarded by the Navy, to reach British east coast ports...