Word: floundered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mothers now, three years into stable, democratic rule, flounder precariously between their status as a movement and a political pressure group. To the outside world, it is tempting to term their current situation an identity crisis, though the mothers would firmly disagree. Argentina is a nation where movements rapidly, sometimes underhandedly, sometimes violently, turn into governments. (The most outstanding example is that of dictator Juan Domingo Peron, who managed to unite the most curious mixture of labor unions, fascist military men, left-wing guerrillas and a host of other disparate elements into a movement that has lost its cohesion...
Along the Texas coast in East Galveston Bay, Hugh Brothers, 52, a Houston pharmacist, was casting for flounder in shallow water. "This swell came up from behind in the water. It didn't knock me down, but it was extraordinary. I looked around and saw there weren't any boats nearby, and I said, 'Where'd that come from?' Then everything was perfectly still." On the 48th floor of the 64-story Transco Tower in Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked...
...stable of the networks', Tartikoff has time to devote to the rest of the broadcast day. The Today show, the most bracing of the three sunrise coffee klatches, has mounted a strong assault on longtime ratings champ Good Morning America at ABC, while the CBS Morning News continues to flounder with the abrupt departures of Anchors Bill Kurtis and, last week, Phyllis George. The Saturday-morning kidvid schedule remains No. 1. Carson is still king of late-night, and Letterman the hippest of clown princes. Only daytime is a slum for profits when it could be a gold mine...
Wilkinson, whose own prose style combines wit with understatement, is canny enough to give the flamboyant Bunting his head, quoting not only his anecdotes but such side comments as his thoughts on flounder ("I don't eat nothing with both eyes on the same side of the head"). The book is filled with whiteliquor lore, including a description of all the impurities to be found in moonshine: "Maggots spawn in mash. Rats, snakes, owls, possums, foxes, and other small creatures find their way to it and drink it and get drunk and fall in and drown." What Wilkinson does best...
...sight and his first two wives. Giles hires Louise as a research assistant. His sorrows, his grouchy promiscuity, and his insecurities as a scholar leave him totally unprepared for her chaste, almost religious adoration. Unless he can deal with his miserable past, his budding love affair is doomed to flounder in misdirected lusts...