Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Often forgotten, however, is Freud's self-analysis, his unique personal triumph, the achievement which made psychoanalysis possible. The courage it must have taken to set out on the first exploration of the unconscious and repressed is an example any academic community could follow proudly. It is for this, above all, that Freud deserves rational understanding and honor...
...Crimson finally flashed in triumph, as the varsity lacrosse team revolted just enough yesterday to take its first match in ten tries, 10 to 5, from M.I.T. on the Busy School rectangle...
Home from his foreign exploits, Khrushchev began preparing for his major triumph as First Secretary: dominating his first party congress. His 47,000-word speech was loaded with tables of production, learned quotes from Lenin, and exhortations to efficiency and greater production. It sounded like (and might easily have been) a rehash of one of Stalin's old speeches. In Stalin's mighty fashion, Khrushchev took lofty cracks at top party comrades, referred to Malenkov as an "incorrigible braggart," and told how it had been "necessary to correct" Molotov on an important ideological point...
President Pusey hailed the new telescope as a triumph of science, predicting that by its use the Observatory could fulfill the University's task "of constantly seeking for answers which are true...
...play starts when the hero, Dick Dudgeon, who is the black sheep of a pious New England family, gets a legacy. This isn't right, for black sheep don't usually get legacies and heroes don't usually triumph at the beginning. When Dick later decides to be heroic he does so just because he feels like it, and not for the love of the minister's beautiful young wife, as he should. And when the elderly minister should become heroic, he's a coward. In the end, however, the minister appears with pistols, and both he and Dick Dudgeon...