Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jenkins' allies vigorously threw themselves into the battle, realizing that a defeat for one would be a setback for all and would severely damage the party. Williams sounded a near apocalyptic note. Jenkins' success in Hillhead, she warned, was "the last chance for Britain to find a democratic, moderate but radical alternative to revolution...
Despite the setback to the highly touted Owls, the Crimson managed to subdue tenacious Penn and Princeton squads, 8-7 and 13-5, respectively, knocking out its strongest competition for the Ivy League championship...
...Soviets began to pull back. Late in the day Dobrynin reiterated his leaders' hope that we would not undo all that had been accomplished. "We will not under any circumstances let détente be used for unilateral advantage," I said. "Don't think we will accept a military setback in the Middle East...
Monday morning, Oct. 15, some 2,000 tanks were joined in the Sinai in one of the biggest armor battles in history. Once outside their antiaircraft missile screen, the Egyptian tanks were vulnerable to Israeli air power; at least 250 were destroyed. It was a reversal of the Israeli setback of the week before. Now the Israelis, already advancing in Syria, would begin to move forcefully on the southern front as well...
...victory avenged a crucial Harvard upset over the Tigers (now 6-5 in the Ivies) three weeks ago, a setback that put an early crimp in Princeton's annual duel with the UPenn Quakers...