Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goalkeeper. The U.S.'s block-that-tax-boost, hold-those-prices mood went far toward explaining Washington's most remarkable phenomenon of 1959: the triumph of President Eisenhower's balanced-budget goal, despite the spending plans that Democrats brought with them when Congress convened last January. Back then, with Democrats showing the flush of November victory and the economy still showing traces of pallor, some of the President's own advisers warned that a balanced budget would be out of keeping with the trend and temper of the times...
Down Cuba's 937-mile Central Highway six months ago, Fidel Castro rolled in triumph; presumably to restore the country's democracy and peace. Retracing the rebels' victorious tank treads last week, TIME Correspondent Bruce Henderson found a country tense and bitterly divided. His report...
Philosophy triumphs with ease over misfortunes past and to come, but present misfortunes triumph over...
...make it so by removing every trace of grace and nobility from Blanche, leaving her as little more than a drunken whore, is hardly fair to Mr. Williams. Once this is done, the play is no longer Blanche's tragedy, nor does it become Stanley's triumph, but rather an extended sort of fertility rite. "Procreative power" without some sort of intellectual substantiation does not make an exciting theatre, I'm afraid. Mr. Rabb has captured much of the fire, horror, an virility of Streetcar; but he has missed the tenderness, the beauty, and the love that give the play...
Magnificent Harvest. Greeted by President Giovanni Gronchi and a 101-cannon salute, De Gaulle, a paunchy but majestic figure, made his triumphant way through the cheering streets of Milan. The French Tricolor fluttered from windows; there were Arches of Triumph made out of flowers, and at least one made out of cake. At Magenta, De Gaulle inspected the 4th Regiment of the plumed Italian Bersaglieri, whose predecessors fought there a century ago. Near Solferino, he and President Gronchi lunched at a villa where Napeleon III and Victor Emmanuel gloated over a victory banquet that had been set for the Emperor...