Word: setbacks
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...freshman soccer squad emerged with a 5-0 victory over the University of Connecticut, and the freshman "B" football team suffered an 13-7 setback at the hands of Cheshire Academy, a Connecticut prep school...
...with a small setback Monday in its unwearying efforts to thrust service upon the Harvard community. Partisans of the Eliot House Grill descended upon Jonathan Trumbull '64, HSA food man, and harassed him to the point of stealing his food, burning Dustin M. Burke '52 in effigy, and liberating his food wagon. The vigilantes sought refuge in the Eliot House Chapel...
Both sides are confident of victory in the coming referendum, but most observers give the pro-fluoridationists and edge. The Council's action seemed a setback for the anti forces, who favored the City malling, since a larger turnout at the polls would give them a better chance of ending fluoridation...
...conferring with his associates in Hebrew, likes to voice homey parables. He lives with his wife and three children in a lavish home on Long Island, where his special joys are a pump-powered waterfall and a library that contains more electronic gear than books. Despite the Lerner setback, Riklis last week hoped to raise some money by contracting to sell off one of Rapid-American's divisions for $4,300,000. But Meshulam Riklis is painfully learning that what comes rapidly can also rapidly...
...Patchwork Past. The rough handling in court was not Fanny's first setback. In 1821 a racily illustrated edition won fame up Massachusetts way, in what is generally regarded as the first recorded case in the U.S. of suppression of a literary work on grounds of obscenity. Her second-class status thus established, poor Fanny found that the boys just wouldn't leave her alone. Like her sister-in-arms, Lady Chatterley, she has been dog-eared, passed around, pirated, smuggled, disguised in Franny and Zooey jackets, and buried under musky sweatshirts in prep school locker rooms...