Word: floundering
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Even in the non-agricultural seminars, the extension students often get a bargain. Because they have been away from academic life for an average of almost ten years, they are expected to flounder for a while in reading, reports, and exams. And so Littauer's professors often swallow hard and give the extensioneers a higher grade than they really deserve...
...allowed the political situation in South Korea to flounder to a point where old (77) Syngman Rhee could make the U.S. look ridiculous by cutting off Voice of America broadcasts (see WAR IN ASIA). The real point of the Rhee scandal is that after two years of war in Korea, the U.S. has neither been able to trust Rhee or to find some other leader whom it could trust...
Eighth Army's late commander, General Walton ("Johnny") Walker, was a steady, courageous battle leader who was inclined to flounder in staff work and had 11ttle imagination. After the Chinese Communists smashed into North Korea, neither Walker's starched generalship nor the remote-control direction of Douglas Mac-Arthur's staff in Tokyo could give the Army the direction it needed. Ridgway can. Omar Bradley called him "one of those tremendously valuable Army officers who are both outstanding commanders and amazingly competent staff officers. He can plan an action and he can execute...
...coach watched the big, clumsy kid flounder until he couldn't stand it any longer. He yanked him out of a freshman game a few weeks ago. "Your name's Conway, isn't it?" he asked. The kid's lip trembled. "Yes, sir," he replied. Said the coach: "Well, you're not playing like...
...carrier will be the longest (1,090 ft.), and the biggest (65,000 tons) naval vessel afloat, and flat as a flounder. To reduce the ship's visibility and provide extra deck space, the lofty island of wartime U.S. carriers will be shrunk to two turret-like structures which telescope below deck level when not in use. The carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air. Like the 45,000-ton Midway-class carriers, it will be too wide...