Word: setbacks
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Knox's arrival coincided with renewed demands in the Senate that the American people be told "the truth" about the "serious setback" at Pearl harbor demands that were met by a ringing call for confidence in "our war President" by a "united American people...
Leverett had little trouble in giving the Gold Coasters their first setback of the year. Paced by Harvey and last year's all-House star, Al Cameron, the Bunnies ran up 26 points to Adams...
...aspect defeat would be ruinous. Britain has picked the field of battle and seized the initiative. For the first time since the war began she has gone into battle with equipment equal if not superior to that of the Germans. To lose under these conditions would be a severe setback to the psychological cause of the Allies. But a defeat in Libya would be equally disastrous for strategic reasons. This is a key step in the Battle of the Mediterranean. With the army of the Nile defeated Egypt would soon be lost. Turkey would find the Germans knocking...
With this short, tired statement, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell last week took upon himself an historic guilt. He was telling the Indian Council of State about Britain's setback by the Axis drive in Libya last April...
...Evangelist Buchman is losing followers not only through this recent setback in Britain but because many Buchmanites, including Dr. Shoemaker, now believe that he wants to form an independent sect. He has abandoned his onetime claim that Buchmanism simply makes Baptists better Baptists, Catholics better Catholics, etc. Result: he is rapidly losing the active churchmen he had in his ranks, recruiting few new members from the churches...