Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reaching Usak, where he had scored his 1922 triumph, Inonu saw police scatter the welcoming crowd with tear gas, made his way with difficulty to the house of Republican Deputy Riza Salci. It was instantly surrounded by gendarmes, and during the night a fire started mysteriously and had to be put out by the Usak fire brigade. The next day, the local police chief announced that he had been suspended from duty because he refused to obey the provincial governor's order to shoot anyone who left Salci's house that night...
...impossible to single out key events, since a surprise performance or a smashing victory anywhere along the line could break this perennially explosive meet wide open. Strong Crimson performances in the first two events, the mile and the 440, could, as they have in the past, precipitate a decisive triumph...
...Cecil Parker, Robert Stephens. With so much to offer, neither show could fail. And in the case of The Browning Version, Gielgud's superlative performance could have done the job alone. Sir John's every movement, every artful, effortless nuance of speech added up to a television triumph. Just having hired him to play the pathetic old English schoolmaster was a measure of Susskind's taste and talent. He could have left the rest to Director John Frankenheimer...
...movie was made in a Greek village called Kritza with its populace participating. Dassin's evocation of this atmosphere is the final triumph of the film. He has isolated a place which seems to belong at once to antiquity and to the modern world, and found it inhabited with people of all shades of passion and knowledge, from the clearest white to the darkest black. A tremendously serious movie, it is also full of wise and ridiculous humor. Surely there is no better sign than this of Dassin's success...
Willy Thompson surprised Princeton's Pete Kingston in the two-mile with a come-from-behind triumph, and the Crimson dominated the hurdles, with Joel Landau taking two firsts. Art Cahn led for the last 300 yards and won the 880 in 1:55.6. The mile relay quartet triumphed easily. Princeton showed its strength in the dashes, as John Chang in the 100 and Edmunds in the 220 won handily...