Word: agrounder
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...TIME ran aground; Cinemactor Fairbanks, a special operations officer with the Eighth Fleet in the invasion of Sicily, is on course...
...Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...
Near Rose Island, 60 miles below Nanking, two artillery shells from the Red-held north bank hit the Amethyst, crippled her bridge and wheelhouse. Rudder controls jammed. The Amethyst swung helplessly with the current; she ran aground on a bar near the island. Her four forward guns, facing the island, were useless, but her stern guns began to pour a methodical fire of 4-in. shells into the Communist positions. The shore batteries cut loose again. "It was a bit of a haze from then on," said one of the survivors...
Quelle Emotion. The next day France's imperial yacht led a triumphal procession of flag-decked yachts, warships, steamers and sailboats from a score of nations through the rest of the canal. Everybody worried about running aground. "During the entire trip," wrote De Lesseps, "the Empress felt as though her head was circled with fire; every moment she imagined the Aigle grounded, the honor of the French flag compromised, and the fruit of labors lost. Suffocated by emotion, she was obliged to leave the table and we could overhear her sobs." Nevertheless, the voyage was negotiated successfully from...
...same moment another royal romance went aground-that of Farouk's sister and Farida's childhood playmate, 27-year-old Princess Fawzia with the Shah of Persia. Since the day in 1939 when she was palmed off on an amiable, feckless young prince, whom she had never met, to cement relations between his country and hers, blue-eyed Fawzia's marriage had traveled much the same rocky road as her brother...