Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spirit of revenge. . . . Spirit of secrecy!" screamed the Orator, his passion rising. "Spirit of hatred! . . . Lack of sense began to triumph...
Sweeping down with more fury than the Assyrian, Colonel Apted has led his band of Yard police to a stirring triumph over the college bicyclers. Today Harvard is reviving the Magna Carta of Cambridge pedestrians, the Lowell law against bicycling in the Yard, and henceforth the hateful two-wheeler is banished from the highways and byways. No longer need walkers and truckers, freshmen and presidents, stand petrified with fright while the whirling dervish streaks by streaming dust and dirt on all who watch it pass. Nightmares and dreams of sudden death are over, and all's quiet along the Charles...
...across the path of justice. Even polite questionnaires aren't answered, important records are hidden and destroyed, high powered corporation lawyers insist on "constitutional rights", which mean the rights of the rich to keep secret the secrets of their success. But the power and the procedure, in some cases, triumph; after weeks of Senatorial threats, plutocratic evasions, and painstaking research, the real troubles begin with the public hearing...
...cataclysmic was Marshal Badoglio's perfectly timed triumph that New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, one of the clearest-headed correspondents at Italian Military Headquarters, was able to cable his paper as follows...
...triumph for the Olympic movement. The Germans did not try to use the games as a vehicle for Nazi propaganda...