Word: misstepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke down. The explanation gave some insight into how most soldiers managed to survive the psychological strains of modern combat. Writing in a supplement to the Department's Bulletin, Major Raymond Sobel analyzed the crack-ups of 50 seasoned men who had fought battle after battle without a misstep. The aggregation of symptoms was so similar in each case that Psychiatrist Sobel and his colleagues gave it a name-the "Old Sergeant Syndrome...
...Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, sportwriters are expected to toe the party line as carefully as reporters and editorial writers. Last spring, Sport Columnist Lester Rodney publicly apologized for a misstep: he had been guilty of subtle "white chauvinism" in failing to condemn New York Giants Manager Leo Durocher for his Polo Grounds row with a Puerto Rican fan (TIME...