Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private life. His houses in Detroit, Seal Harbor and Hobe Sound were lavish. He had three yachts. But his likes were extremely simple. In the evenings, he often sat around playing hearts, rummy or backgammon with his family. At his $3,000,000 Seal Harbor house, he loved to prowl along the rocky Maine coast with his wife, Eleanor Clay Ford (whom he had married in 1916), to find a cozy corner in the lee of a boulder and read to her in his soft, shy voice. He played tennis, avoided stuffy gatherings, kept himself in fine physical fettle...
Lampy's two runs followed an unfortunate train of events in which one of last year's lively balls was substituted for the traditional grapefruit. Major league talent scouts, on the prowl for likely looking 4Fs, girded their loins and scrammed after three innings. They missed the mighty rally...
...when they put into Lorient and Brest for rest, repairs and refueling. Some Allied sources say that constant air raids, by smashing more poorly protected surface shops and power stations, have lowered the efficiency of Lorient and Brest as much as 75%, but the U-boats in packs still prowl forth into the Atlantic...
...There Be Light. Dr. Fifield's predecessor, a man of 73, used to prowl through the empty church, turning off the electric lights, in a pathetic attempt at economy. Dr. Fifield turned all the lights on again. In almost no time the First Congregational blazed brighter than the San Francisco Fair, had almost as many exhibits...
...Donald Mason repeated the performance: a neat straddle on a surfaced sub that blew it to bits. Last week he got a Silver Star, equivalent of another D.F.C. He also made the biggest leap in a Navy man's career. He was commissioned an ensign, went out to prowl for more subs, more promotion...