Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obvious, as the faculty recognized in its resolution, that no one above assistant professor will have anything to do with the job. Since these younger men will be busy trying to attain permanent status, and since they will lack the experience of an older man, this is a serious setback for the Bender Plan. But it does not justify throwing out an otherwise sound program...
...moved last week to square his account with the army. It was stubborn opposition in the army's upper ranks last summer which forced Juan and Eva Peron to drop their brash project of running as a family ticket for President and Vice President. It was a humiliating setback, and the Perons do not forget...
Belated but commendable vigilance had saved the U.N. from a possibly grave setback. But vigilance alone was not going to get peace in Korea; it remained to be seen whether steady military pressure, without a full-scale offensive, would...
...back on its feet. Its industrial production was higher than in 1938. Then came Korea. Prodded by the U.S., Europe grudgingly agreed to rearm. U.S. arms production got going first, though slowly (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and in the worldwide inflation that followed, Europe's convalescing economy suffered a setback. Last week, in two countries, it was in perilous condition...
...case Truman had called "a red herring," had just been convicted, and Acheson had declared: "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss." The U.S. people had just begun to realize fully the malevolence of the enemy they faced. Abroad, the West had suffered a grievous setback in the loss of China to Communism...