Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both her brothers, Rasputin and the Empress. In 1936 she announced her retirement from the stage; scarcely a year later she was back on the boards in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. In 1940 her portrayal of the wise, warmhearted schoolmistress in The Corn Is Green became her greatest triumph. Audiences still cheered her on to her familiar curtain-call farewell: "That's all there is, there isn't any more...
This year flu forced him to give up golf for two months. Until last week's triumph, he had not played in a month. Casper's putting faltered this spring, but for the Open it was wondrous. In four rounds he took only 115 putts. Said the new champion: "I knew that as soon as the putting came back...
...Detroit Free Press's Executive Editor Lee Hills. "My theory," said Hills, "was that if you have been selling for years at 7? and you go up 1? that's just loose change, an extra penny, and the average reader doesn't care." Emboldened by their triumph-worth some $5,000 extra revenue a day to the Free Press and the News, $4,000 to the Times-Detroit publishers could foresee further steps in their painless, inch-penny path to the summit of a dime...
...offense. Said the New Republic last week in an editorial on Strauss: "One is reminded of Shaw's comment that St. Joan infuriated people not by being right but by the manner of her being right." In his long public-service career, Strauss has fought his way to triumph after triumph. He has been proved right time after time. But in each instance he has, by his very skill and aggression in urging his views and in defending himself, left behind him enemies dedicated to his downfall. And of all these enemies, none is more unforgiving than New Mexico...
...Balboni, the game was something of a personal triumph. One of only three returning lettermen last March, he had been shunted to a back-seat role for most of the season. But yesterday he came into his own at last, slamming out two singles and a grand slam home-run. The latter hit sewed up the game for the Crimson and doubtless will be many times celebrated in story when Balboni sits down with his grandchildren years hence...