Word: set-back
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...Panther-that name may change before the car's introduction in September-is Chevrolet's belated answer to Mustang. It has much the same long hood, set-back passenger compartment and squat trunk of the Mustang, will have about the same average price...
...will retain much of his old conservative support and in so doing will deliver a major set-back to Texas Republicans who had ironically based all their hopes on a ticket headed by Barry Goldwater. And he will carry virtually all the liberals either because they have the high hope that he will be a great President, in the Roosevelt fashion, or because they recognize him as much the better of two evils...
...will retain much of his old conservative support and in so doing will deliver a major set-back to Texas Republicans who had ironically based all their hopes on a ticket headed by Barry Goldwater. And he will carry virtually all the liberals either because they have the high hope that he will be a great President, in the Roosevelt fashion, or because they recognize him as much the better of two evils...
...Negroes the advance in civil liberties will seem a set-back for civil rights; Ross Barnett is assured a light sentence. Long accustomed to legal inequities, Negroes will note with bitterness that this libeal shift came in the case of a Mississippi governor whose defiance of federal law led to two deaths and risked the lives of many others...
...letter sent last month to all the officers, directors, and stockholders of the Coop, he complained that their plans provide for "no set-back, no variety, no courtyard, no trees," "Mistakes built into concrete and brick are irrevocably fixed for generations," he observed...