The boy flailed for about a minute, drifting toward the deep end, then sank.

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What isn't making the headlines is that Obama flailed and dithered for nearly three days before first approving force.

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He picked up her coat and did not help her as she flailed her way into it and found the buttons.

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But after his blazing start, he flailed, in the spell of sterile theories about color and composition, and of traditions too piously revered.

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Carol flailed around for a year and a half draining managerial talent before she got her sea legs under and truly grasped the company she was leading.

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But those same factors are what has kept the company in Wall Street's good graces even as Facebook, Zynga and Groupon have flailed amid concerns about how they are at the whims of fickle consumers.

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Her arms flailed and legs buckled.

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Boston was up 3-0 in the second-round series against New York this year, with a 2-0 lead in Game 4 when Rask tripped on a rut in the crease and flailed at a slow-moving puck as it rolled over the line.

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Propping her limp body into a sitting position, they began poking, prodding, and speaking to her sharply while she, with eyes rolling wildly in fear and confusion, angrily flailed at them trying to get them to leave her alone so she could go back to sleep.

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