Word: floundered
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...sang Captain Barry Boucher last week after tying up his 75-ft. trawler Shanty Girl in New Bedford, Mass. In eleven days on Georges Bank, off the New England coast, Boucher and his crew of five had netted 45,000 Ibs. of fish, including 30,000 lbs. of yellowtail flounder, which they sold for $28,000 in the red brick auction house at the foot of the pier...
Zuffelato replaced Chuck Daly as coach of the Eagles in 1971. Last year's highly-touted quintet went 9-17 after it had ranked 19th in the nation in Sports Illustrated's pre-season poll. Apparently, Zuffelato saw the writing on the wall when his team began to flounder once again midway through the season...
...protest for their own sake if nothing else. They would flounder around and get bogged down without some kind of subcommittee helping them," one member, who asked not to be identified, said...
...supper, though, now I'm partial to the baked stuffed flounder with newburg sauce, but when you finally get a meal you can stomach, the tendency is to overeat and...plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief...
...then by the hundreds, they learned that no one knew they were coming, and no one wanted them. Devout Orthodox villagers, furthermore, did not share their reverence for the philosophers of the Golden Age, whom Eastern Christians abhorred as pagans. There was nothing for the philhellenes to do except flounder about and die. Enough did so that the great powers became queasy; all ports of embarkation to Greece, except Marseille, were soon closed to the student crusaders...