Word: setbacks
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...bigger than any other cranberry cooperative because Founder Marcus Urann, figuring that housewives were tired of stewing fresh cranberries, decided to can some cranberry sauce. Housewives ate it up. Even so, cranberries sold mostly around holidays, and sales grew no faster than the population. The industry suffered its greatest setback in 1959, when the Government seized a few cranberries sprayed with aminotriazole weed killer and announced that cranberries so contaminated might cause cancer. That Thanksgiving and Christmas, and in the months that followed, the public reluctance to buy cranberries almost ruined the industry...
...Crimson offense, which hasn't scored a touchdown in the last two weeks, suffered another setback yesterday when it was announced that the mainstay of the offensive line, tackle Steve Diamond, is out for the season with a broken wrist...
...Viet Cong next door, isolated by its refusal to take part in the government, driven back by gov ernment armies it once could lick, the Pathet Lao now controls far less land and 600,000 fewer Laotians than it did in 1962. Last week came yet another setback. The Defense Ministry reported that the Royal Laotian army had killed 80 Communist troops in a battle north of the Plain of Jars...
...Scapegoat. It was not until 1918 that the military stalemate ended. That spring the German army in France had launched its "victory offensive," and April in Paris meant shells from Big Bertha dropping in the Tuileries Gardens. The French needed a scapegoat for their setback and chose General Franchet d'Esperey (the British called him "Desperate Frankie"), then commander of the northern armies in France. He was exiled to Macedonia. An egotistical but forceful general, D'Esperey promptly got the 350,000-man force out of its lice-ridden trenches. He struck boldly at the heart of Germany...
...From the Bay of Pigs fiasco, President Kennedy learned that it is vital to our security that a President be a forceful and intelligent leader, the sole determiner of policy. The major lesson for the American people is that it is better to accept a momentary setback in prestige than risk a long-lasting loss of respect throughout the world. Kennedy best expressed this concept when he said, "What is prestige? Is it the shadow of power or the substance of power?" The Bay of Pigs was far from a total loss for the U.S., for it provided Kennedy with...