Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best victories are the ones so well prepared that they come easy and seem effortless. Such a victory did Charles de Gaulle win last week. Within one month of earning his overwhelming election mandate, he used that triumph to put himself clearly on top, and clearly in charge, both in France and in Algeria...
...Gaulle's triumph, conducted for the most part in discreet silences and behind the scenes, was nonetheless the climax of an epic political struggle. In Algeria, De Gaulle's first objective had always been to break the illicit power of the Committees of Public Safety-the hard-nosed, ruthless union of right-wing settlers and political colonels that sparked the Algiers insurrection of last May and prepared De Gaulle's way to power (TIME...
...glanced down at the photographs of his dead friends, tucked under the glass top of his desk. "All the great are gone, one way or another. It is my turn. To come in second behind an Ascari or a Fangio is still a triumph, but to come in second behind an unknown beginner because his young reflexes are quicker or his inexperience pushes him to take unnecessary risks can be tough for an aging champ. It will not happen to me. I will never go near a race track again, not even as a spectator...
Varsity cross-country captain Dyke Benjamin led the Crimson harriers to their sixth successive victory and second perfect-score triumph of the season yesterday as they smothered a weak Dartmouth team...
...Crimson's undefeated varsity cross-country team will be favored to score its sixth successive victory today when it faces an inexperienced Dartmouth team in a dual meet at Franklin Park. With the varsity still fresh after an easy triumph over the University of Massachusetts last Tuesday, Coach Bill McCurdy expects "no real difficulty" with a Big Green team composed mainly of juniors and sophomores...