Word: agrounder
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...steamer on which he was traveling ran aground. 31. Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, deranged slayer of Eileen Pahey, wanted...
...Midshipman Hornblower (1950) and the high tides of action in Captain Horatio Hornblower (1939). It takes the young officer on a raiding expedition to the West Indies. A few days out, the captain goes mad, and has to be straitjacketed in quarters. Off Santo Domingo, the Renown runs aground as a Spanish fortress pounds her with red-hot cannonballs, but the "uncontrollable vigour" of young Hornblower saves the day. At his suggestion, a broadside fired at the fort jars the ship loose from the sucking sands; a night attack reduces the fort itself, and a brilliant flanking movement captures...
...wounded lay scattered about her deck. The ship's doctor was killed, the skipper was wounded and soon died, and most of the guns were put out of action. The Communists answered the Amethyst's white flag of truce with machine-gun fire. The smashed frigate ran aground on a mud-bank, remained trapped under Communist guns for 101 days...
Three and a half months after Captain William D. Brown had run the battleship Missouri aground at 15 knots in the familiar waters of Chesapeake Bay, a Navy court-martial meted out his punishment. Captain Brown, 47, was dropped back 250 numbers in his grade, thus putting him that many rungs lower on the promotion list. Captain Brown's sentence had been reduced from 300 numbers by the reviewing admiral and the case would get further review. But practically, as far as any further advancement went, Captain Brown had himself run hard aground...
...present Congress, all concrete proposals for federal aid to education have run aground on the muddy side issue of parochial schools. Last week's convention of the American Council on Education heard a formula for clearing the channel. Said Dean Harold Benjamin of the University of Maryland, a backer of federal...