Word: setbacks
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...adversity. "Some people look upon any setback as the end. They're always looking for the benediction rather than the invocation. Most of us have enough problems so that almost any day we could fold up and say: 'I've had it.' But you can't quit. That isn't the way our country was built...
Unbelievable. That was the word on everyone's lips Saturday after Harvard basketball's latest setback, which dropped the team's record to 4-10 for the season. It hung over the silent Harvard locker room while the Crimson hoopsters tried to comprehend their 73-72 defeat, tried to fathom their monumental fold which brought a UConn team on the edge of extinction, down 18 points in the second half with their imposing center already fouled out of the game, to victory...
...major setback came when Larry's first physical was postponed a month. "I had a date in November and I was down to 132 for it. When I found out that they had changed the date, I gained all my weight back in a week." Larry wasn't sure whether he could go through his rigorous diet again...
...time he was 12, Ed had pretty much accepted that this was the way things were going to be. Academics became more important to him and he became a good student. Third grade had been a real setback because he had to learn to read Braille, forcing him to stay back a year in school, but he was able to learn quickly and started to excel. An even greater accomplishment, however, was learning to walk with a cane when he was 14. He spent two summers learning to walk around a city by himself and learning how to cook...
...setback that the team suffered came at the hands of Denver University on December 30 in the finals of the Holiday Tournament at Colorado Springs. Denver, ranked number one in the nation, edged the Crimson, 3-2, in overtime...