Word: setbacks
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...much aged and saddened Dr. Robert P. Geyer tells reporters that John Lindsay's mayoralty defeat was not only a tremendous setback to synthetics and to him personally, but an irreparable loss for rats the world over. "If you won't nullify Rat Control." Former Justice William O. Douglas tells the Supreme Court, "at least grant these rodents the right to lawful assembly." After the bearing Douglas confides at a press conference: "Now they want to control rats, next it'll be the Jews--you know what that means." The elder justice returns to Alaska to write a book about...
Kissinger returned to Washington with the impression that the agreement could be completed in a matter of days a belief that he was to retain, through one setback after another, until the very...
...temper, the beginnings, at least, of a global detente. Moreover, it is an axiom that, if the good news from Viet Nam is never as good as claimed, the bad news is never as bad as feared. The negotiations may yet be salvaged, but the Administration's severe setback in Paris, the persistent absence of peace, the inability to free the prisoners by Christmas-all these remain bitter blows. They are also reminders that the Viet Nam War seems to have the durability in American life of an evil spell: everyone who touches it sooner or later seems...
...feel threatened. But one can never be quite sure what they are going to do. Our relations have been up and down. When I became Prime Minister there were small indications of improvement. Then came the Cultural Revolution, the attack on the Indian embassy, and there was a setback. Things were again improving, and then came Bangladesh. Now we are back to Square 1. They say that the Soviet Union and India together are attempting to encircle China. This is utter nonsense. We are not attacking anyone, and I don't think the Soviet Union wants war with anyone...
...seriously. By its nature, of course, it's a very private sort of question. It must be accompanied by education and a higher standard of living to make it work. We have had a big success in the cities but not in the villages. We had a little setback in Kerala, where there is a large number of Catholics, when the Pope made his [birth control] statement, which was unhelpful...