Word: floundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gunther Grass: Another squirt Grass turned 52 on Saturday Besides, he wrote a book called The Flounder...
...earned a league-leading 109 strolls from the plate, batting No. 1 for the beleaguered (fifth place in the American League West) '82 version of Billy Ball. Once on base, he is an electric offensive threat. When he leads off from first, infields become positively giddy, outfields flounder about like regional ballet corps, and pitchers are afflicted with tics and shudders. "You know he's going to go," says Angels' catcher Bob Boone. "The question is, which pitch...
Nolie and Winger flounder around in this Disneyesque mess, but there's not much they can do. Nolie consistently underacts, while Winger tries too hard to give Suzy that special something which would enable her to rise above it. John Huston narrates with the wise-and-witty intonation of Father Christmas, and the audience snoozes. Skip this one, folks. It's cheaper to buy the crab...
...wise in the face of massive national problems, but it has been an antidote to bad times since Italy became a nation. Italians, who seem to have an expression for just about everything, have coined an especially apt one to describe the way life goes on while institutions flounder: malgrado, meaning in spite...
...loss shot to the wind any hope any hope of salvaging the season with a Greater Boston League Championship. Chances for any Ivy Championship or an NCAA playoff berth had already been dispelled early on with 3-0 losses to Columbia and Cornell, as the offense had continued to flounder in game after game...