Word: agrounder
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...been seriously damaged in action off Salerno, but had come back to fight again on D-day off Normandy. Last week the "miracle ship," stripped of her fighting gear, was being towed to a scrapper's yard when the gales hit. The Warspite was swept aground near a Cornish town named Mousehole. Then the big seas lifted her close to shore. A lifesaving crew, risking destruction, got the crewmen safely ashore. But the Warspite was doomed to final breakup on the jagged rocks...
Soon came more boarding parties, heavily armed. Fierce fights broke out as the immigrants refused to permit the British Navy to take over. While passengers clawed and pummeled the sailors, the ship zigzagged through converging Navy craft. Finally the Arlosoroff scraped aground, just 100 yards off Bat Galim, Haifa's seashore suburb. Behind the barbed wire on the beach, hundreds of Jews waved handkerchiefs at the immigrants, cheered as a dozen leaped overboard and struggled ashore-to certain capture. On the ship the fight continued...
...flashlights). At Wembley Stadium, 4,000 hockey fans, marooned for the night, snuggled against one another in the grandstand. At New Cross race track the greyhounds lost sight of the rabbit. In the Channel the S.S. America groped and bellowed mournfully, unable to make port. Other ships ran aground. In Southampton, Ivor Thomas and his fiancée Elithia Zinck-just in from Bombay-drove off a dock and were drowned...
...edged Biscayne Bay last week. Nonetheless, she was a proud ship. She had borne 18 Estonians, storm-tossed on the dirty seas of Europe's politics, across an equally turbulent ocean to haven in a free land. There was a not-so-proud moment when the Linda ran aground off Quarantine, and hung there high & dry until the tide refloated her. Soon she was tied up in a nest with two sister craft which had ended the same daring voyage within the previous month...
...second heat it was the same story. Romeyn Taylor '49 of Leverett House pulled to an early lead and put a lot of rainy daylight between himself and Allen Grant, Jr. '45, of Kirkland House; but the curving Boston shore tricked Taylor, almost causing him to run aground...