Word: setbacks
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Toppling Empires. Imperialism's first great setback is easily pinpointed. It happened near Concord, Mass, one spring day in 1775. The American Revolution served notice that independence can be not only a faith but a fact. The faith spread like quicksilver-to Latin America, where Bolivar ousted the Spaniards, and the Portuguese beat a retreat; to Europe itself, where it mingled with British liberalism and the surge of the French Revolution (1789) to stir Poles, Czechs and Hungarians into clamor for nationhood. Imperialism in Europe faltered; it went down to defeat in the carnage of major...
Oppenheimer's first really severe setback as the Statesman of the Atom came in the fight over whether to make the H-bomb. Here is how Oppenheimer tells the story in his letter to the AEC: "No serious controversy arose about the Super [the H-bomb] until the Soviet explosion of the atomic bomb in the autumn of 1949. Shortly after that event, in October 1949, the Atomic Energy Commission called a special session of the General Advisory Committee and asked us to consider and advise on two related questions: "First, whether in view of the Soviet success...
Their plans received an early setback when only eight men came out for the varsity. Led by high scorer John Hessel, however, the team went on to shoot twelve matches with area colleges. Four inexperienced sophomores, Charles Walcott, Eran Spelfogel, Nat Geary, and John Loness all developed rapidly to earn letters. Marv Prescott also received his letter, while a second junior, Bill Brooks, rounded out the squad...
Hang the Consequences. A French victory at Dienbienphu would be a major setback for Ho Chi Minh, a defeat for Communists everywhere. It might also provide the kind of electric stimulus which, on occasion, makes France capable of surprising the world; at the very least, it would act as a tonic for those who insist that the war can still...
FAIR-TRADE laws got a setback in Florida, where the State Supreme Court for the third time held such price-fixing laws invalid...