Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of the game was strikingly similar. The varsity was fully as fast and quick-thinking as the intrepid undergraduate; the Massachusetts team was as confident but as weak as the sign. The result was a 60-6 opening game triumph, the Crimson's most lopsided since...
...such glum reflections in the Kremlin. Scarcely had Adenauer disappeared than a swarm of East Germans, headed by Premier Otto Grotewohl, flew in as if on cue In the next few days, the Kremlin resounded with revelry as masters and puppets staged a weird, diplomatic Walpurgisnacht dance of triumph, like so many witches cackling over some treacherous bargain. "We laugh at Adenauer," crowed Grotewohl, and Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke, with the Russians' beaming approval, deliberately mocked at every Adenauer claim of achievement. "What Premier Bulganin promised Adenauer about the release of ... prisoners was only the result of our work...
...Interior Minister, signed with Britain the agreement ending the long British occupation of the canal zone. (Under the agreement's gradual withdrawal clause, the British by last week had turned about half of the canal zone over to Egyptian control.) It was a momentous, street-filling, torchlight-parading triumph for the revolutionary regime, and it gave the Nasser junta fuel on which to travel for months to come. There was, however, grumbling from one sector: the Moslem Brotherhood saw betrayal of Islam in Egypt's agreement to let the British back into Suez if Turkey is attacked...
...about nationality. Forever Amber, for example, sold 300,000 copies in France, but The Notebooks of Major Thompson, which is a Frenchman's idea of a Briton's idea of France, has sold 400,000 in the past year alone. One reason for the Major's triumph over Amber is that the Frenchman's need for national unity seems to go even deeper than his absorption in female cleavage. As for American readers, they may stand aside, laughing, and for once watch the fish of other nations being fried...
...nearness of death seems to have had a therapeutic effect on Prisoner Stroud, then 30. Condemned to spend the rest of his life in prison, he made his solitary-confinement cell into a laboratory and himself into a major authority on bird diseases. His story, a wildly improbable triumph of will and intelligence, is compellingly told by Author Gaddis, a California social worker...