Word: blundered
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...army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang as the bait and the Japanese bit, and bit hard, by advancing on the village through a corridor lined with Chinese divisions. By thus exposing their flanks the Japanese committed an inexcusable military blunder, but they had gotten away with it before and thought they could do it again. They failed to take cognizance of the new Chinese fighting spirit. The Chinese showed that they are learning to cope with Japanese superiority in offensive weapons by abandoning positional warfare in favor of mobility...
...decided, and off they went in a cloud of gear teeth, both steering wheels flapping idly, both gas pedals down to the floor. The Vagabond tactfully arranged his harem around him to form a feminine cushion in case of a crash. At once he realized he had made a blunder. Mary's Dubble-Bubble chewing gum now exploded in his face with every third or fourth stroke of her jaws, spraying him with minty mixture...
Temperamentally, Harry Luce was TIME'S lightning; Brit Hadden its thunder. Young Editor Hadden, black-haired, bushy-browed and so nervous that he never sat still, always scowled at copy, generally from beneath a green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME...
...liberal is a determined, intelligent man, and is wholly admirable as a person, but there is no attempt made to hide the inherent weaknesses of his position. It is admitted that if people are allowed to choose their own courses free from dictation, they will blunder as often as proceed wisely. The inertia and occasional impotence of democracy are freely conceded. The communist is allowed to write a novel about the squalor that our economic system allows, as seen in the sharecroppers of the Mississippi delta...
...Somerville second story man committed the gravest blunder of his career the other night when he entered the apartment house in which Skip Stahley, Freshman football coach lives and was knocked cold by a single punch. He was revived some hours later in a Somerville police cell...