Word: floundering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1960s, New England fishermen harvested some 700 million lbs. of cod, flounder and haddock annually. Last year they netted only 375 million lbs. Some fish appear to be nearing extinction: the New England haddock catch has shriveled since 1960 from 112 million lbs. to only 7 million...
THURSDAY: Valley of the Dolls. 1967. A movie that makes the average soap opera look like "Last Year at Marienbad." Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon (Manson victim) Tate flounder through the slings and arrows of this outrageous melodrama like wounded animals. Worst movie of the sixties award. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...
...pages. Viking. $6.95. A predictable score of Grimm old favorites (samples: The Fisherman and His Wife, The Robber Bridegroom) with color and black-and-white pictures from the 1909 Rackham edition. The original English translation by Mrs. Edgar Lucas is laced with "prithees" and "shan'ts." (The flounder says to the fisherman, "I shan't be good...
...stock market, which for years has been crowded with heavy breathers at the merest wisp of a peace rumor, inscrutably chose the session immediately following President Nixon's cease-fire announcement to stage a flounder. The Dow Jones industrial average, the most closely watched barometer, fell 14 points, its largest decline in 18 months. On Friday, the Dow closed at 1,004, off 23 points for the week and down 48 points from its high so far in what was supposed to be a banner year...
Dagdigian, Roth and Hampe collected the last three goals, and a smile crossed Cleary's face when a fan in section 18 threw a flounder onto the ice in jubilation as the game's end neared...