Word: misstepped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hated any disturbance in his class, and like his colleague, Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, he was especially insulted by coughing. One morning he made a misstep as he hurled a threatening gesture at an offender. As he arose, completely himself, and adjusted his inevitable orange tie and wing collar, he snapped...
...reached the front, the front itself was disintegrating. French units, broken by battle and fatigue, were disjointed and out of touch. Between them German motorcycle scouts and armored units penetrated at will. Until that time there had always been an off chance that the German command would make a misstep, that the German supply system under severe strain for five weeks might crack. But the point had come when the disorganization of the French Army, and the condition of all the roads behind its lines blocked with refugees, meant that General Weygand could no longer issue orders with effect...