Word: setbacks
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After handing the Deacons of Kirkland their first setback last December, Winthrop showed good team play in taking Eliot 27 to 10. Scoring honors were well divided among the first team, Kay Rogers collecting eight, Ralph Seigler and "Woodie" Woodward six apiece, and Al Sachs four...
Lull Before Lunge. After the first Japanese thrust there had come a lull-especially in enemy air activity which had given the British their first setback. The Jap was apparently gathering for another lunge. He was on a line roughly 300 miles above Singapore, but scattered patrols on the east coast, apparently landed from the sea, were within 175 miles. If the Philippines fell, many transports busy there might soon be available to the Japanese for reinforcing Malaya...
...Times. In dry Oklahoma City, a man cheerfully paid a $662 fine for possessing un-tax-paid whiskey. "The price has jumped from $10 to $14 a case," he beamed. "I can afford a little setback...
Both the Funsters and the Dormitory team have won twice, but the Dunster record is marred with one loss. Adams comes next with one tie and one setback, followed by Eliot, Leverett, and Lowell with two defeats and a deadlock apiece. Kirkland is in the cellar with two losses in as many starts...
...side of the U.S. Navy is a well-trained personnel with high morale spurred to desperation by the most humiliating setback in U.S. history...