Word: setbacks
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...varsity squash team's hopes for its second straight Eastern and Ivy championship were rudely shattered by a very strong, well-balanced Princeton squad at Princeton yesterday. The Tigers used their great depth to hand the Crimson a decisive 6-3 setback...
...million sq. ft. The same economic report told of a 20% increase in the 1956 grain harvest, mainly due to heavy plantings in the Siberian "virgin lands"-a pat on the back for those who had responded to Khrushchev's call two years ago. But the biggest setback since the last Supreme Soviet meeting was in foreign affairs. The coexistence policy, a successful operation a year ago, had been literally shot to pieces by the Russian attack on Hungary. To restore their prestige in the satellite countries, the Soviet leaders had had to call on the good offices...
...state government. But he promised to run again for governor in 1958. Banking on that promise, a committee launched a "Win in 1958" fund, and campaign committees were formed two years ahead of time by citizens who agreed with Del Sesto's postdecision comment: "Democracy received another setback in Rhode Island today...
Friday night the varsity suffered a humiliating setback at the hands of Columbia's one-man team, Chet Forte, 80-61, and the following night blew a contest to Pennsylvania in the last minute of play...
...long-term struggle to permit typing on mid-year and final examinations suffered another setback yesterday when the Faculty rejected a proposal by the Committee on Educational Policy to allow typing. There was, however, some discrepancy in the wording of the original recommendation by the Committee and the actual plan on which the Faculty voted...