Word: floundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a dozen simple sentences, unrehearsed and devoid of speechwriters' polish, the President of the U.S. raised the conference from the legalese in which it was beginning to flounder, and seized the world's imagination with a rough-hewn plan to free mankind of the fear of surprise attack...
...Flounder. Having made the bill's defeat a probability by the way they wrote it, the Republicans proceeded to make defeat a certainty by the way they handled it. Sorely stung by the sorry past performances of Senate G.O.P. leaders, the Administration this time largely ignored them, banking heavily on an intensive public-relations campaign, e.g., full-page newspaper ads. Result: the Senate Republicans were even more ineffective than usual. G.O.P. Leader Bill Knowland uttered hardly a word during the debate. Pennsylvania's aging (75) G.O.P. Senator Ed Martin, nominally in charge of the bill as ranking Republican...
...flounder in the realm of truisms and vague calls to action. It is in specific articles that the justification for the aims of i.e. must be sought. It is by analyzing a substantial group that we may determine whether Mr. Raditsa has done more than put together a miscellaneous assortment of writings, whether he has in fact created an organ which will express a distinct and significant element of thought at the University. Two issues do not provide sufficient material to form any judgment. Nevertheless even in the current issue the articles forcibly direct our attention to the problem...
...flounder's eyes pop out of its head and seem to walk around, as nervous and irritable as two monkeys on an organ-grinder's string...
...critical articles, both ambitions in intent, flounder on the problem of epistemology in modern literature. Any estimate of Roger Shattuck's Retreat and Return must be to some extent unfair, for it is only a brief extract from his forthcoming book. However his broad classifications seem to bury many ramifications and nuances in the authors he discusses. That the literature of his period is "self-reflexive" is sufficiently explicit in the sources themselves. But a definition of the myriad meanings of this term would seem to be the critic's task, as well as a search for underlying motivations...