Word: floundering
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...picture captioned "Exception: UCLA's Soe is 'lousy at math.'" The implication seems to be that Asian-American non-science majors are so rare that they deserve to be put on display and labelled "exceptions." In actuality, the growing number of Asian social science and humanity majors do not flounder, as the Houston professor asserts, on "open-ended problems, those that require a tolerance for ambiguity...
...Faith clashes with Doubt, Youth seeks to triumph over Mortality, Innocence is shattered, and Knowledge is modern man's crown of thorns. But the concepts are too big, with too many of them vying for the audience's attention. As a result, the characters and audience are left to flounder in a sea of unanswered questions and un-satisfying answers...
...NOTEBOOK: Sophomore center Tim McMohan hyperextended his knee and is doubtful for Saturday's game with Yale... The Harvard power play continued to flounder. The Crimson failed to convert on all six of its extra-man opportunities, bringing its horrendous power play conversion rate to under 10 percent. At Bright Center Dartmouth 0 0 0-0 Harvard...
Some time between now and the end of your first week here, it'll get to you Maybe it will be the dining hall's quivering yello jello, or perhaps one too many cakey flounder fillets For many, the halibut cheese casserole seems to do the trick. Whatever it is, one day soon you'll find yourself headed out the door for one of the Square's extraordinarily diverse culinary institutions...
...first book on the murder of Scarsdale's "Diet Doc" Herman Tarnower Moreover, because it follows extensive media coverage of the affair, it is disappointing that Alexander adds so little new. While the amount of journalistic detail she has amassed is impressive, her prose style often flounder and she colors her commentary with a maudlin sympathy for murderess Jean Harris, a woman who, in her words, "reminds...