Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle-Scarred Warrior. To newsmen, this was a prime example of the weakness of the French press. To Nèegre, it was a big setback in a ten-year battle for freedom of the press. Neègre was a star Balkan correspondent for the French agency, Havas, oldest newsgathering agency in the world, when the invading Germans suppressed it in 1940. In Rumania, Negre promptly organized an underground French information service to smuggle news to the allies, was trapped by the Gestapo and imprisoned. Released in an exchange of prisoners, he feigned loyalty to the Vichy government...
...Hevia nomination was President Prío's response to the 1950 by-election setback, when voters fed up with entrenched political gangsterism and corruption upset his control in the city of Havana. Carlos Hevia is that almost unique Cuban man of affairs-a man of such universally acknowledged character as to be virtually above personal attack...
...powerful Brown squad handed Coach Bob Pickett's varsity wrestlers their first defeat, a 21 to 11 setback, Saturday at the Blockhouse. In the preliminaries, the Bruin freshmen topped Howie Houston's Yardlings...
Over the years, the corporations have withstood more than one setback. The Weimar Republic made dueling a criminal offense, but the practice still kept on. The Nazis banned the corporations, but they managed to survive. After the war, occupation authorities banned them again, but they merely went underground, and the rules against them began to relax...
...proposed state commission to censor books and magazines was dealt a sharp setback Thursday when a clerical error was uncovered. The Legislative Commission on State Administration had rejected the measure instead of approving it, as had been reported...