Word: agrounder
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...disasters began more than two weeks ago, when the Liberian-flag tanker Argo Merchant, well off course, ran hard aground on the Nantucket shoals, a well-charted section of the sea just southeast of Nantucket Island. After a week's battering by wind and waves, the 640-ft. ship began breaking up, spilling its entire cargo into the frigid Atlantic. Immediately endangered were not only the sandy strands of Nantucket and Cape Cod but also the rich fishing grounds of Georges Bank. Shortly after the Argo Merchant grounding, another Liberian ship, the Sansinena, exploded in Los Angeles harbor with...
Boats were aground, houses were afloat -it was the primal nightmare or the ultimate disaster movie. "The mind, in art and in life, feels a basic need for some kind of arrangement," another survivor summed up for Allen. "Suddenly deprived of this, it finds itself facing a horror and a loss that is far deeper than any mere physical distress of the moment...
...rather unusual ambition for a woman: she wanted to be an officer aboard a ship. So she enrolled last year in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., which began accepting women in 1974 (current enrollment: 975 men and 25 women). But her career ran aground on an uncharted double standard...
...Cliffe Ran Aground...
...looked like the 'Cliffe had run aground on Tuesday as the sailors tallied several last-place finishes and was a dismal eighth out of thirteen competitors...