Word: flounders
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...longer the engineers of a great new society, federal workers have been left to flounder without a guiding ideology. The less-ismore theory of government exhorts these workers to embrace the liquidation of their livelihood and the ideals for which they have worked. Their fellowship is the camaraderie of a demolition crew, sharing a drink around the wrecking ball...
Gunther Grass: Another squirt Grass turned 52 on Saturday Besides, he wrote a book called The Flounder...
...earned a league-leading 109 strolls from the plate, batting No. 1 for the beleaguered (fifth place in the American League West) '82 version of Billy Ball. Once on base, he is an electric offensive threat. When he leads off from first, infields become positively giddy, outfields flounder about like regional ballet corps, and pitchers are afflicted with tics and shudders. "You know he's going to go," says Angels' catcher Bob Boone. "The question is, which pitch...
Nolie and Winger flounder around in this Disneyesque mess, but there's not much they can do. Nolie consistently underacts, while Winger tries too hard to give Suzy that special something which would enable her to rise above it. John Huston narrates with the wise-and-witty intonation of Father Christmas, and the audience snoozes. Skip this one, folks. It's cheaper to buy the crab...
...wise in the face of massive national problems, but it has been an antidote to bad times since Italy became a nation. Italians, who seem to have an expression for just about everything, have coined an especially apt one to describe the way life goes on while institutions flounder: malgrado, meaning in spite...