Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eager to erase the bitter memories of last week's upset loss, Harvard's aquamen seized the opportunity to play giant killer themselves yesterday, winning ten of the eleven swimming events to hand perennial national power Indiana University a 67-46 setback before 1200 highly partisan fans at Blodgett Pool...
With five minutes left in the game and B.C. on top, 61-60, the walls began to crumble for Harvard. Six contested referee calls in a row--all in favor of B.C.--visibly demoralized the cagers, a setback they never recovered from...
...Jimmy Carter, and immediately found himself so strapped for funds that he had to stop paying his campaign workers. The Senator, who had been the most glamorous politician in the U.S. and who had seemed invincible only a few months ago, suffered the kind of setback he had never known or perhaps ever expected. Seldom had such a promising campaign floundered with such astonishing swiftness...
...home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. That night, while the votes were being counted, he went to a friend's house to see the film Kramer vs. Kramer. He learned of the results from a TV reporter who came to call. Reagan's second-place finish was a setback for John Sears, his highly touted strategist, who had kept his leading candidate out of the fray and especially out of Iowa. In August, Reagan led in the polls with 48% of the vote; Bush had 1%. Explained Sears: "It won't do any good to have Reagan going...
Howard Baker was encouraged enough by Reagan's setback in Iowa to speculate that the race may be wide open; he figures that Bush may be easier to overtake than Reagan. Perhaps the best campaigner of the candidates and a man who is at home on TV, Baker is confident he will do better in New Hampshire than he did in Iowa, where his time was limited. By making more of an appeal to minorities and labor, Baker plans to attack Bush from slightly to his left and paint him as being too conservative to be elected...