Word: setbacks
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...many of the young shooters, news of another school rampage sets off bouts of emotional turmoil. Carneal became "seriously depressed" after the Columbine attack, according to Kentucky juvenile-justice commissioner Ralph Kelly. "He really took a setback from that. He felt a lot of responsibility for that happening." Kinkel also blamed himself for Columbine. On hearing the news, Kinkel told a psychologist, "I flipped out, started blaming myself." According to a friend, the March school shooting in Santee also disturbed Kinkel. Victor Cordova, incarcerated in a juvenile-treatment facility in New Mexico for shooting a schoolmate in the head...
...that Crosby would care. His worldview was famously imperturbable (say the word as Bing would, with the blowfish p's and b's). He?d most likely respond to the rare slur or setback with a blithe "Well, did you evah?" Crosby's last words, before the heart attack that killed him in 1977, at the conclusion of a foursome on a Madrid course, were "That was a great game of golf, fellas...
...addition to the size change, the University increased the setback for the project, creating 18,700 square feet of new green space along the Charles River...
...freshman boat is seeded first after its 7-1 season, its only setback a two-secoond loss to Princeton...
That rally tied the game and took Wahlberg off the hook. More importantly, it showed that the team could still motivate itself down several runs in a game that meant little compared to the setback it had suffered two days earlier...