Word: setbacks
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...chill shadow of coal, food, housing and other shortages lengthened over England, Tory hopes for victory at the polls had risen proportionately. But last week, in two by-elections, the Tories got a jarring setback...
...stunning Democratic setback, the President spoke the old, familiar words: "I accept their verdict in the spirit in which all good citizens accept the results of any fair election...
Thus the Russians, after a year of incessant obstruction, were finally ready to cooperate, even though a unified Germany would mean a setback for Communism. In Berlin's Allied Control Council, the U.S. and Russia last week started "informal" discussions about raising the level of German industrial output...
Despite the temporary setback, Lamar will try again this afternoon, hoping to begin organization of the hundred hopefuls who turned out. The program for today includes final distribution of equipment and preliminary field drills in preparation for the October 12 opener against Andover...
Solitary Confinement. Last May, a few days before the critical referendum which marked the surprise setback of Communism in France, Dewavrin was spirited away to solitary confinement in a Metz Army fortress. The Government's only explanation: Dewavrin had been guilty of "grave administrative faults...