Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman: "[The people of the U.S.] will not be discouraged by temporary setback or delay...
...Saturday he entertained Lord & Lady Halifax at lunch. At 6:15 a.m. Sunday, he boarded the Sacred Cow for a Mother's Day trip to Grandview, Mo., there to receive some pleasant news to top a pleasant week. After a setback, his 94-year-old mother was recovering satisfactorily from her hip fracture. He returned to Washington the same day, much relieved...
...softball tilts, Eliot finished strong to beat Adams, 15 to 9, while Dudley edged Kirkland, 12 to 11. It was the fourth straight for the Mastodons without a setback, as big Bob Crichton limited the Gold Coasters to single digits in notching his fourth...
...stinging setback for Senator Taft (Ohio), chairman of the Senate's GOP policy committee and the labor committee. Taft had predicted passage of the amendment by a "comfortable margin...
From northern Shropshire down to the Bristol Channel, the Severn swirled over its highest known flood marks. Many Yorkshire mine pits were inundated-another serious setback for coal production...