Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...goodby party King Paul pinned on the general's jacket the second highest Greek decoration, the George I cross. Van Fleet drank His Majesty's health in grape juice (the Van Fleets are teetotalers), and said: "I should like to say that the one setback I had in Greece was when I asked Her Majesty the Queen not to come to the front. She did not listen to me." Frederika smiled impishly. Paul replied, "It was our duty...
Though the Havana mayoralty was the election's juiciest plum, and therefore a sharp setback for the Prío brothers' machine, their Auténtico party cleaned up in the provinces. They won a majority of 66 congressional seats, elected more than 100 of the island's 126 new mayors...
...show business' battle of the century: the movies v. television. Los Angeles' TV station KTTV bought the studios for $2,250,000, planned to use them for producing TV film shorts for 25 stations as far away as Manhattan. For Hollywood it was only a minor setback. But it gave the nervous movie industry fresh cause to wonder, worry and scheme over the troubles still to fly from the Pandora's box in U.S. living rooms...
...yesterday, and for nine innings it looked as though they might succeed. In the next frame, however, they were rudely toppled from the dizzy heights of a 4 to 4 tie and went hurtling down to a 7 to 4 defeat, their ninth and probably most disheartening setback of the season...
...ruler of West Borneo took his setback with apparent calm. He remained calm as the new central government quickly set about gobbling up its member states, wiping out the federal system he had sponsored. During the January revolt of former Dutch Captain "Turk" Westerling, the Sultan of West Borneo appeared to be completely loyal to the government, continued to attend cabinet meetings and make the rounds of official parties...