Word: aground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gulf of Mexico, Krist threaded his way through cross-state canals. At the last lock along the 155-mile stretch, a suspicious tender called the FBI. Swiftly, a land, sea and air task force was mounted to track Krist down. With helicopters whirring above him Krist ran his boat aground on a crocodile and snake-infested strip of Gulf Coast land called Hog Island...
...Arabian American Oil Co. He was eventually named head of the transportation department, given the job of providing food and equipment for Aramco crews prospecting along the Persian Gulf. Trucks carrying the supplies either bogged down in the desert or were stopped by tribesmen; ships sometimes went aground. Abu-Haidar decided to switch to airplanes but Aramco, while interested, was unwilling to get too deeply into aviation...
Resorting to emergency techniques much the same as those used recently in Puerto Rico, British cleanup squads sprayed detergents along the coast of Cornwall after the tanker Torrey Canyon went aground last year. Scientists now report that the detergents did more damage to marine life than...
...Paul Ignatius, who presently seems to prefer the F-111B over any "paper airplane" his admirals might want to add to the naval aviary. Ignatius produced a secret study written by Connolly only last year, which praised the F-111B power plant to the skies. That set the admirals aground for a while-but left the future...
Means Committee. After much wrangling, the White House promised to trim $2.6 billion from what would have been spent in the current fiscal year, and Congress excised another $1.8 billion. It is possible that some tax increase will be voted next year. - Civil rights proposals ran aground for the second straight year. The Administration's omnibus measure proposed open housing, a ban on jury discrimination and protection for civil rights workers...