Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Returning to his attack on Eisenhower "distortions," Stevenson urged: "Let us not place victory in a political campaign ahead of national interest, and let's talk sense about what we have gained ... in Korea." The outstanding results of the Korean war in Stevenson's eyes: the setback to Communist plans for conquest of other Far Eastern nations, the strengthening of U.S. defenses around the world and the growing ability of the R.O.K. army to take on the burden of South Korea's defense...
...Setback. Now his head was over the parapet, and now the snipers had something to shoot at. Even in Russia, seniors, pushed aside, resent young upstarts. Molotov, for one, could bear him a grudge because Malenkov exposed Mrs. Molotov's inefficiency. She lost her job first as head of the Cosmetics Trust, then as head of the Fish Industry. Kaganovich, a ranking Politburocrat and a Jew, could resent Malenkov's ill-concealed antiSemitism. But Malenkov, unlike Judy Holliday (see CINEMA), was not born yester day: he cultivated one mighty friend in the Politburo, Lavrenty Beria, head...
...since that nightmarish day in 1926, when Bill Tilden, Bill Johnston and Richard Norris Williams were rudely ousted from the national quarter finals by France's Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Rene Lacoste*,had the U.S. suffered such a tennis setback...
...Narrowly escaped a political setback when the Illinois Democratic State Central Committee reluctantly voted to give the Illinois gubernatorial nomination to Stevenson's personal choice, 56-year-old Lieutenant Governor Sherwood Dixon...
...Renaissance palace at Karlsruhe, seat of West Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party suffered a major legal setback. For two weeks, while the government attacked as unconstitutional the antiSemitic, Hitler-venerating SRP (TIME, May 21, 1951), the defendants-like Communists on trial in the U.S.-were alternately defiantly silent or deliberately long-winded, smirked, refused to testify, and contemptuously egged on demonstrators outside the court. Last week, as the government concluded its case, Court President Dokter Hermann Höpker-Aschoff made an announcement: pending the court's decision (not expected before fall...