Word: setbacks
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...Face. Last fall, after three years as national champion, Pauline Betz had her first major setback, from 33-year-old Sarah Palfrey Cooke, who came out of retirement to tournament play. Sarah took the crown away from Pauline at Forest Hills...
...office. In a single, considered statement ("If he's right, I'm wrong") the President had repudiated Congressman Slaughter, had thrown the whole weight of his personal and political backing behind Candidate Enos Axtell. A rebuff for the President in his own state would be a bruising setback...
...British had met one setback after another. The Argentines refused to trade their immense ($750 million) blocked sterling credit in Britain for the British-owned Argentine railroads, wanted to use part of it for British goods. Perón himself had demanded a 300% price hike on beef sold to Britain...
Yesterday the Puritan softballers retaliated in handing Lowell its third setback in four starts, 10 to 6, in a game marked by the presence of numerous ringers on both sides. Leverett defeated Adams by default in the only other game scheduled...
Italy's tantrum of outraged national pride over Trieste recalled similar symptoms of hyper-nationalism after the last war. Then, as now, Italians insulted their friends, wallowed in self-pity and exaggerated every setback into a catastrophe. A wise but polysyllabic Italian, Giuseppe Borgese, described the national mood: "The nation, masochism-stricken, exulted in frustration...