Word: setbacks
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Beach shrugged off his first setback ever in House competition, quipping "hell, even Ali had to lose sometime...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities has just suffered its sharpest setback. By huge majorities, undergraduates have rejected participation on the CRR and dashed its claims to University-wide legitimacy...
Riches of Research. Prohibition, of course, ruined California's once thriving wine industry, and growers suffered another calamitous setback during World War II. To maintain sales and profits in those whisky-short years, big distillers bought up major wineries and their large inventories. To get scarce liquor, dealers thereafter were forced to accept unwanted stocks of wine, which they left to deteriorate along with the growers' reputations...
...Washington, Defense Department officials acknowledged the South Vietnamese suffered a setback in Laos over the weekend, but said that was "no reason to write off the whole operation." The State Department said the objective of disrupting the flow of North Vietnamese supplies "is being carried...
...capital itself, the Communists have been responsible for a wave of terrorist bombings. In the countryside, they seized the offensive after their setback last fall at Taing Kauk (TIME. Oct. 19). A month ago, they cut Route Four, the main road between Phnom-Penh and the deepwater port of Kompong Som, and the Cambodian army has not yet been able to reopen it. The result is a serious fuel shortage in Phnom-Penh. So far there has been no such scarcity of food, although the flow of refugees has increased the capital's population from 500.000 to almost...