Word: floundered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that happened now-as Nader must know very well-most of his projects would probably flounder. Although he has recently set up a fledgling institute in Washington to carry on his kind of work, the effort is still uncertain enough that most of its life depends on Ralph Nader's personal force. The shift from one individual crusader to wider, institutionalized reform isn't easy, but Nader knows that there's only so much one famous crusader can do. And so his Washington institute-with the lumbering title "Center for the Study of Responsive Law"-and his summer student projects...
...cold this winter, and WARMTH has always seemed too sappy to be attractive, and H-R X is underground. The people who are making it are going on, making it, and the others flounder, as people will. In the corner, an old man speaks of Bloomsbury, and how it changed England, if only for a moment, and a graduate speaks fondly of Harvard, not knowing what we mean, and a girl who isn't too pretty writes a cliched poem about a boy who's not too handsome...
...staff members were fractious because they did not feel they had freedom enough to experiment. The managers of many of the 130-odd public TV stations that carry PBL protested, on the contrary, that the programming was too avant-garde for their audiences. As the lab seemed to flounder, the Editorial Policy Board, a group of outsiders headed by ex-Columbia Journalism Dean Edward Barrett, became increasingly meddlesome. Also constantly kibitzing was Fred W. Friendly, the former CBS News president who first developed the PBL concept...
Rarely is one year different from another in this pattern of success. One team a season wins a championship, two or three others challenge for the top spot, and although unsuccessful, inflate the victory percentage in the process and the remaining one or two flounder miserably in the Ivy cellar, earning the undying emnity of the Department of Athletics statistician...
...fates have said it's right. And if my destiny should flounder, Then it's back to Rinso White...