Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson, addressing a Democratic women's conference, spent a whimsical paragraph on a sure laugh-getter, the sack dress. "The source of the sack is Moscow. It will be Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...
...Composer Arthur Honegger's sprawling dramatic oratorio, Joan of Arc at the Stake. Last week, with the full orchestra buttressed by assorted soloists, a boys' choir and a mixed chorus of 150 voices, the Bernsteins wound up the New York Philharmonic's season with a family triumph...
...Freshmen scored an impressive 19-5 triumph over the Tufts Freshmen yesterday as captain Dave Bohn had five goals...
...powerful North Carolina tennis squad came to Cambridge expecting to register a victory over the Crimson, but all the Tarheels managed to win yesterday was one singles match. Coach Jack Barnaby said after the triumph that "the boys played really well," and indeed they...
...other Crimson singles victory was achieved by Fred Vinton over Dick Make-peace at sixth position. Vinton lost the first set, 6-1, but soon warmed to the task as he took the next two, 6-3 and 6-1. Ben Keys scored the only Tarheel triumph, defeating Al Goldman, 10-8, 6-0. In an unofficial match, Bill Wood outfought North Carolina's Walker Lockett...