Word: flounderers
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...arara, a flat flounder-like fish of northern Brazil, has its tail equipped with a sharp spike containing a kind of poison. When the fish senses danger it raises the spike perpendicularly. Natives walking in the shallow waters of the region have been pierced, poisoned to death by the weapon...
...authors of recent effusions on the subject of deported aliens. Has it occurred to the gentlemen that their metaphor may be inapplicable, that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia...
...University with no strong preference for any definite pursuit. The intellectual stirring which they receive in their Freshman year destroys their preconceived ideas. And henceforth they suffer most from a lack of knowledge, not only of the nature of various occupations, but also of their own special aptitudes. They flounder about from one study to another, immersed at the same time in a welter of distracting undergraduate activities, with no guiding purpose. On graduating some, merely following the line of least resistance, become teachers, without regard for the special qualifications needed for high success in that profession. Others drift into...
...outstanding feature of most undergraduate discussion of war and armaments is the lack of specific knowledge which is displayed. Most men are possessed of a delightful store of generalities, some pertinent, some vague; but when pinned down to the hard facts with which to substantiate their ideas, they flounder hopelessly...
...trouble lies in the fact that most students do not know how to study. As Freshmen they are plunged into seas of work, without receiving any careful instruction on methods of doing it. They flounder for a time, until they evolve inefficient, make-shift ways for themselves. Some, not so fortunate, do not learn the rough-and-ready lessons of experience soon enough, and their college careers find early ends...