Word: setbacks
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...alarm over this setback to the government's hopes, General Raoul Salan, French army commander in Algeria, in a special broadcast, promised the Moslems complete freedom in campaigning and full protection in voting. De Gaulle would not listen to the appeals of the hesitant that the elections be postponed. "This is an incident," said he calmly. "There will be others...
Brown didn't recover from that initial setback until 1914, when, after losing 20 times in 21 years (there was no game in 1904), it managed to hold the Crimson to a scoreless tie. It wasn't until 1916 that the Bruins finally achieved a victory, winning by the convincing margin...
Labor unions had mobilized massive get-out-the-vote campaigns in California and Ohio which seem to be successful. A "yes" vote in either state would have represented a major setback for the unions...
...trim Yankee sloop, slashing relentlessly through 22-knot winds which sometimes raised waves as high as six feet, handed Sceptre her third straight setback...
...five Catholic Interracial Centers called Friendship Houses that existed five years ago (in New York, Chicago, Washington, Portland, Ore. and Shreveport, La.), only two remain within the national organization-in Chicago and New York. Despite such signs of setback, the mood of the delegates was hopeful. "After all," said the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Hugh Dolan of St. Benedict's Church in Greensboro, N.C., whose parish is one of the few in the South with integrated parochial schools, "the Gospel principle of love is here to stay, and the segregationists can't do anything about it." The conference...