Word: setbacks
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...Evers polled only 22% of the votes, and lost. So did 240 of the 284 black candidates in the local races. Even in counties where whites were outnumbered blacks failed to gain political control. The massive setback to black hopes resulted from 1) huge turnouts of white voters, and 2) an apparently large number of black voters who supported white candidates...
...meeting was surrounded by the usual secrecy; non-Communist observers are not even certain whether it was held at Sochi or 40 miles away at Pitsunda. Presumably, the conferees touched on a wide range of foreign policy problems -Berlin, the Soviet setback in the Sudan, China. What most interested Kremlinologists was the final conference communique containing a short but sharp denunciation of "leftwing and right-wing opportunism." Translated, that means China on the left and Yugoslavia and Rumania on the right...
Soon after Herbert emerged from the anaesthesia, his secondhand heart and lungs were described as functioning adequately. In three days he was sitting up to eat breakfast. Then he suffered a setback and needed mechanical assistance in breathing. But at week's end Herbert was progressing satisfactorily...
...Socialists, Communists and Radicals collected an impressive 50.8% of the vote in nationwide municipal elections, and he seemed well on the way. But last week, in a by-election in one of the largest of Chile's 29 congressional districts, Chile's Marxist President suffered an embarrassing setback...
...month, Blessitt is really testing Jesus' power. He is in New York City for a three-month blitz among the pimps, prostitutes and porno shops of Times Square for which he hopes to recruit as many as 3,000 young helpers. So far he has had only one unnerving setback. A streetwalker told him that she had worn one of his bright red stickers (TURN ON TO JESUS) and "never had a better night...