Word: floundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred people, and one of them doesn't like me, I'll know it, and I have to get out of there." This is possibly a somewhat morbid and perhaps flamboyant exaggeration of his condition, but his friends say that he often does seem to flounder in a sea of impressions. It is to resist them, they say, that he puts up his arbitrary, antisocial front...
Eisenhower, who has until July 27 to make a decision, last week gave a clue to his intentions. He overruled a Tariff Commission recommendation that he raise the tariff and set quotas on groundfish fillets (cod, flounder, etc.), now being used in the fast-growing new product, fish sticks (TIME, May 17). Said Eisenhower: higher tariffs and quotas "would hamper and limit the development of the market." But if Ike overrules the commission on watches, the Administration may decide to give the watchmakers more defense orders to make up for their lost watch business...
...nevertheless act and flounder...
...U.S.S. Missouri, on wheels, will feature the annual parade scheduled to start from the CRIMSON at 2 p.m., winding thence to Radcliffe, and to Soldiers Field for athletic events. An elephant, three fire engines, stagecoaches, a Sherman tank, nine rickshaws, and a forty-foot effigy of John H. Updike, "Flounder of his country," will also participate...
Even in the non-agricultural seminars, the extension students often get a bargain. Because they have been away from academic life for an average of almost ten years, they are expected to flounder for a while in reading, reports, and exams. And so Littauer's professors often swallow hard and give the extensioneers a higher grade than they really deserve...