Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobody Wanted. Harry Truman began his year of triumph a sorely beset man. He was popular with almost nobody. The country grinned at the G.O.P. jeers: "Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best he can," "To err is Truman," "I'm just mild about Harry." Eastern wags even gibed at his farmer's habit of rising early: he did it only to have more time to put both feet in his mouth...
Cried a deacon: "An old sheep, he know the road." The chorus swelled to a kind of triumph: "That's right. That's right. Unh-hunh...
Abolition was also a triumph for Untouchable Dr. Ambedkar. Years ago, Columbia-educated Ambedkar, appointed to an official post by the Gaekwar of Baroda, was overwhelmed by humiliation and forced to resign. "Papers had to be flung to me," he once said of this experience, "and the carpet had to be rolled back lest higher castes stood on the same material...
Johnny Belinda. Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute slavey and Lew Ayres as a kindly doctor triumph over some melodramatic buffeting (TIME...
John Chase's Crimson hockey team plays a largely sophomore Brown and at the Arena tonight and stands a good chance of skating off with its second triumph in three starts. Face-of time...