Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story on which the screen treatment is based, or else to include the author's name in a list of credits printed so small that no one over 39 could read it. TIME'S review of The Earrings of Madame De [July 26] says: "The triumph belongs to Director Max Ophuls." The triumph, also belongs to Louise de Vilmorin, well-known French novelist, beauty [see cut], and femme du monde. Her short story, originally called Madame de-, first appeared in 1951 in a French literary magazine [the Revue de Paris] and was an instant success . . . Madame de Vilmorin...
...This is a day of triumph for all the timorous at home and the wicked abroad who want Britain to be small and weak and to count for little," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Last week in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1942 defiantly declared that he had not become Prime Minister "to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," sat glum and with bowed head as his government announced that Britain was withdrawing its troops from Egypt...
...Midi Libre. "Authority and dignity . . . honor . . . loyalty," said the right-wing L'Aurore of Paris. "What Frenchmen, apart from sectarians blinded by hatred." asked the left-wing Combat, "could today refuse him their gratitude?" But Pierre Mendès-France was insistent: there must be no show of triumph upon his return from Geneva. He did not conceal from himself the fact that Geneva was a defeat for his country, a victory for Communism; he wanted only to be greeted, he told a Cabinet minister, "as a man who had a difficult job, and who accomplished it." Said...
Masterful Application. Across the Communist empire, the Red radio network proclaimed the extent of Chou's triumph. "The achievement is of immense, historic significance," crowed Peking. "It is another victory for peaceful negotiation, another ignominious setback for the U.S. policy of strength." The Red radios had their own significant interpretation of Geneva's meaning...
...with the R.A.F., Bader was named a group captain (equals U.S. colonel), and in 1945, on the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, his plane led the huge air parade over London. Today he flies about the world as an executive for Shell Oil. "[Bader's] main triumph," concludes Biographer Brickhill, "is not his air fighting: that was only an episode that focused a world's attention on the greater victory he was achieving in showing humanity new horizons of courage, not in war, not only for the limbless, but in life...