Word: setbacks
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...village was filled with rubber-booted farmers, schoolchildren with flags, drum and bugle corps. At Charleville, the crowd overflowed the arcaded square, and De Gaulle jeered at "those who would prefer that everything failed, either because it is in their nature or because they count on finding in a setback-but aren't they mistaken?-some chance for themselves...
...Algerian delegation, headed by Defense Minister Houari Boumedienne showed up in Cairo to pay its respects. "Regarding Arab unity," said Boumedienne. "our objective should be the creation of solid, strong and healthy bases. The Arab people are not ready to accept another setback, another letdown. For that reason, all steps toward Arab unity must be absolutely unshakeable...
...news blackout. The Publishers Association totted up "known overall losses" of $178,900,000. New York's Commerce and Industry Association countered with the whopping figure of $250 million and called it "conservative." As if determined to have the last word, the publishers answered that "the financial setback sustained in the city as a result of the strike is so staggering that it defies any reasonable estimate...
...decay. Paranoid religious fanaticism sapped the strength of the monastic community, and the power of the baronies was gradually being clipped by the Crown. Lack of funds postponed the start of the Third Crusade, which was expected to revive both faith and the church's fortune. As setback piled on setback, the smoldering resentment of Britain's Christians focused on the Jews...
...when Sputnik I beeped around the earth, jolting the U.S. out of its scientific complacency, Pickering was already in command at JPL. The lab wasted no time in mourning the national setback, for the crisis brought a happy change in its mission. Before Sputnik, it had largely been concerned with military missiles, now it became the scientific center of an invigorated U.S. space campaign. In only 83 days, JPL quickly modified a test rocket, the Jupiter C, and tossed Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite, into Earth orbit...