Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lost Leader. In the moment of his triumph, Gaitskell turned to Herbert Morrison and spoke in tones of warm and genuine regret. Morrison had announced he would resign as deputy leader if he lost. Earnestly, Gaitskell begged him to change his mind: the party needed him. Morrison shook his head...
...successor to the ill-starred Comet I, took off from Hatfield, north of London last week and roared 11.440 miles to Sydney, Australia in record flying time: 24 hr. 23 min.. for an average speed of about 475 m.p.h. All Britain hailed the flight as a national triumph...
...Moscow. Last week, for the first time since the 1917 revolution, an English theatrical company was playing in the Soviet capital. It had come to town with an old Russian favorite: Shakespeare's Hamlet (which was presented in the Russian theater of the 1930s as a story of the triumph of a young revolutionary). The Hamlet was a new production (in English) that had not even been proved in London, boasted but a single starkly simple set, and offered a talented but young (33) and relatively untried Hamlet, Paul Scofield...
...deadlock over the essentially unimportant question of filling a non-permanent Security Council seat, the U.S. is still backing the Philippines against Yugoslavia--the candidate of both the Soviet bloc and much of Asia and Western Europe. This policy of trying to twist each minor decision into a tactical triumph over Russia may show immediate results, but in the long run the U.S. is losing a much more strategic victory--the continuing respect of its U.N. allies...
...hobbies-apparently he needs none. The gentle calm in his blue-grey eyes, in his slow, broad smile, in his unhurried passage through a 16-hour day, baffles those who know him only casually. Says he: "Calmness is rooted in faith in God, in yourself, and in the ultimate triumph of justice." Melting Pot. Richmond's First Baptist Church is not average: it is too big and too prosperous for that. But its energy and efficiency are typical of the Southern Baptist Convention today. From Kansas City, Mo., where Baptists have a $70,-ooo revolving fund to buy sites...