Word: agrounder
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...shock wave reverberates through their minds, Morris reveals the cracks and flaws of personality that in his view divide Americans from one another and thus make such a senseless outrage all too understandable. The book has the makings of a strong sermon; as a novel it runs aground within 50 pages in the shallows of its eccentric cast...
...greatest coup of all, said to have taken place in 1944. As the story goes, ten U.S. Liberty ships arrived in the harbor on a Monday, and by Friday there were only nine. Neapolitans say the missing ship was stealthily sailed out of the port and run aground on the coast ten miles to the south. The cargo was removed and the ship dismantled, piece by piece. American naval officers shrug off the story as apocryphal, but, say Neapolitans, how could any government admit it? "When that news swept the city," wrote the late author Curzio Malaparte, "the laughter seemed...
...governor over the incumbent, McLaughlin. Since the governor and lieutenant governor do not run as a ticket in Massachusetts, Bellotti put together his own organization and outpaced Peabody in 1962. Bellotti developed working contacts with legislators while Peabody hung aloof. He maneuvered skillfully over shoals on which Peabody ran aground. In fact he was clever enough to have his office's budget increased by $50,000. Aided by these funds he toured the state on, "non-political" inspections...
...amazing," says Actor James Mason, "and he comes through it all with great success. He's like a little boy who never doubts his daydreams will come true." He has the Midas touch. For John Paul Jones, he bought two proud vessels in Genoa that promptly ran aground on the Spanish coast, unseaworthy and unsalvageable. He had been taken by the crafty Genoese. But he has since rented the relics to other film companies in search of fresh shipwrecks (Billy Budd, Damn the Defiant), not only recovering his entire investment but also making a fat profit. Even his blunders...
...subs in the area. A more logical explanation lay in jagged Scott Rock, an ill-defined group of reefs barely beneath the surface 120 miles southwest of Korea. The head of Japan's Maritime Safety Board was sure the Leap Forward had gone aground. "An error of navigation," he shrugged...