Word: agrounder
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...problems are small, and whose perceptions, although perfect and sometimes intense, are small also. The sole (and partial) exception is his novel of Everyslob, Rabbit, Run. Here his hero is a former high school basketball star whose memories of past glory give him immortal longings. When his life runs aground in the shallows of marriage, he is moved in anguish to ask: "Is this all there is?" It might also be asked of Updike, for he leaves the question unanswered, and the book ends seemingly with author as well as hero lost in uncertainty...
...different results, however. Crimson sailors assured themselves a place in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Dinghy Championships May 12 and 13 by amassing a total of 76 points, well ahead of the 60-point score on which both Babson Institute and the University of Rhode Island ran aground...
Castro himself created another flurry by reporting that the U.S. frigate Norfolk had violated Cuban waters and that a Cuban patrol boat had fired on a U.S. sub. The U.S. Navy answered that the Norfolk would have run aground had it been where the Cubans said it was. The sub Sea Poacher reported that it might have been shot at on May 6 more than five miles off Cuba, but the shots were so wild that the sub crew thought the tracer bullets were signal flares. Even so. the U.S. made a formal protest to Havana...
Moving up the Welland, the British freighter La Selva bounced off a highway drawbridge, knocking it eight inches out of line. Three other ships missed lock approaches and ran aground. At the head of the lakes the Norwegian freighter Dagfred won the race to pick up the season's first grain cargo-and slammed its bow into a Port Arthur grain elevator. As one British tanker skipper said wryly: "The season has opened with a bang...
...fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon of the Spanish Armada went aground, or of where His Majesty's proud new battleship Montagu piled up in 1906. Aside from "bluebottles"-the island's name for tourists-the Lundyites do not like outsiders to get too close...