Word: setbacks
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...setback in Indo-China gave the Communists and fellow travelers a chance to howl for an end of the war and a negotiated peace with Viet Minh Boss Ho Chi Minh (see WAR IN ASIA...
...Indo-China Jean Letourneau landed at Hanoi's Gialam airfield after the long flight from Paris, a welcoming band struck up the Marseillaise and the Thanly-Nien Hanh Khuc (the Vietnamese anthem, March of Youth). Then the two Frenchmen hurried away from martial music to study the martial setback suffered by France in northern Indo-China...
...foreign-exchange speculators, the decision for a free dollar was a temporary setback. If they rushed in to convert their money back to U.S. cash, the Canadian dollar might fall below 90? and they would take a loss. Their best bet now was to sit tight and wait for the Canadian dollar to show what it could do. This week, a few hours after trading opened, it was selling at 94½? in New York, 95? in Montreal and 96½? in London...
...goodby party King Paul pinned on the general's jacket the second highest Greek decoration, the George I cross. Van Fleet drank His Majesty's health in grape juice (the Van Fleets are teetotalers), and said: "I should like to say that the one setback I had in Greece was when I asked Her Majesty the Queen not to come to the front. She did not listen to me." Frederika smiled impishly. Paul replied, "It was our duty...
Though the Havana mayoralty was the election's juiciest plum, and therefore a sharp setback for the Prío brothers' machine, their Auténtico party cleaned up in the provinces. They won a majority of 66 congressional seats, elected more than 100 of the island's 126 new mayors...