Word: flounderer
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...involuntariness of a convulsion. Even as you look from a plane steep into the sea, and note the amazingly regular patterns of the wakes, it is more as if a stone had been gashed by the claws of a great beast. And along the ashen island, men and machines flounder and founder as desperately, and with as little apparent clarity of intention, as if they themselves were phantasms of dust...
WTAG was Russian virtually all day, all week. Its 37 musical programs concentrated on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Women listening to the Modern Kitchen program jotted down new recipes for beef a la Strogonov, flounder grecheski, pickled herring, borsch, and honey beet jam.* Speakers on WTAG's weekly Forum broadcast from Clark University were Russian Vice-Consul Stepan Z. Apresian and Cornell University's Professor of Russian Literature Ernest J. Simmons. The one radio stunt of the week that didn't come off was an address by Moscow Novelist S. Sergeyev-Tsensky...
...three hours in the U.S. Senate. His were not the sentiments of traditional isolation. They were the sentiments of internationalism. But Wheeler's failure to recognize the fact and use of force in the current world was notably out of key with the U.S. mood; his speech fell flounder-flat...
Rorello LaGuardia, Manhattan's hustling, bustling little Mayor, who in eleven years of office has proved a tar baby for nicknames ("Butch," "The Hat," "The Little Flower"), was tagged anew at the opening of an "Eat More Fish" campaign: "The Little Flounder...
...Cerf, with no bow to Mr. Field, would remain in experienced book-publishing hands, would therefore retain its "high standards and traditions." Smart Publisher Cerf looked frankly pleased at having beaten Mr. Field to a buy, chatted happily about "enormous postwar markets," predicted that books would soon be "a flounder business rather than a caviar market...