Connecticut town nicknamed "The Submarine Capital of the World"

Usage examples of groton.

The key phrase Groton had spoken told Ivo all he really needed to know for the present, and it was not his style to extract meaningful answers piecemeal.

Why was Groton giving him this little lecture-tour, instead of taking him directly to the shuttle?

Ivo had assumed that Harold Groton was an ad hoc emissary, and had to revise his impression of the man once again.

The Grotons were situated at the edge of the torus, where the white-walls would be on a tire.

He could not decide that he liked Groton, but cruelty, even this mild, was not in his nature.

Afra and Groton must have been through a similar dialogue before, and the good wife knew the signs.

Perhaps Groton defended astrology merely because it was ludicrous, subtly or not-so-subtly baiting her.

Groton had said something, and Afra had pounced on it, while his mind drifted, and now somehow Groton was launched into a narration of his teaching experience.

Yet Groton, who had seemed yesterday to have some depth of feeling, concerned himself first with astrology and then with a superficial game!

They did not appear pleased, but Groton evidently had the right of it.

He could not believe that what he observed was all of it, but hoped to learn the truth from Groton very shortly.

Ivo had not heard Groton speak that colloquially before, and he took it as another indication of strain.

Then Afra screamed—but as Groton went to look, she cried out to be left alone, and he yielded.

How could he be sure that this was not after all another destroyer, as Groton had suggested.

He found the snaps Groton had fashioned to connect to the floor-plugs.