Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place where stands a monument, the Taj Mahal, to another dead Indian. The great Shah Jehan built it to immortalize the memory of his empress' beauty. It is man's most eloquent effort to deny that the body and its beauty dies. It is a triumph of the mortician's art. Some may try to raise a Taj to Gandhi (the prettifiers will scarcely be able to stand statues of that ugly body). But Gandhi's true monument will be his story-told again & again...
...from Birla House. Nehru, Patel, Governor General Earl Mountbatten and his Lady threw last rose petals on the pyre as the white smoke of sweet-smelling sandalwood rose against the scarlet evening sun. From nearly a million throats came the chant, half in mourning, half in triumph: "Mahatma Gandhi amar ho gae!"-"Mahatma Gandhi has become immortal...
...eyes, and for once radar had proved to be blind. Radarmen said the fog might have caused an extremely rare phenomenon, shooting the radar waves upward so that a nearby target would be undetected. Pleaded Defense Counsel Roland Ritchie: "Is this man to be a martyr to this triumph of nature over science...
MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, February 6-Having successfully concluded the first stop of its weekend squash tour with a 7 to 2 triumph over Wesleyan this afternoon, the Varsity racquet team goes to West Point tomorrow for its part in the Crimson-Army sportsfest...
...retiring veterans, Rodney and Nelson, wore scars from the Mediterranean and Normandy invasions. In 1941 the Rodney had come in close under the Germans' guns to be in at the kill of the "unsinkable" Bismarck. The Nelson caught torpedo hell off Malta, came back for an hour of triumph: on Sept. 29, 1943, the Italians went aboard her to sign their surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without sleep...