Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goldman, Fred Vinton, and Bill Wood. Their Tarheel counterparts at fourth, fifth, and sixth positions will be Mac Clark, Ben Makepeace, and Bobby Lockett. The North Carolina trio is exceptionally good for the lower half of the lineup and could very well provide the margin for a Tarheel triumph...
...leading prizewinners on the evening his victory was announced. He was called back for three encores, finally retired to shouts of "more" in English. As soon as the hall was empty, technicians scurried in, kept Cliburn at the keyboard until the early hours of morning while they reproduced his triumph on film...
...Vanyusha." So it went all through the week of triumph. He was besieged by professional offers and trailed by adoring crowds that recognized him on sight, called him first "Vanya'' (Little Van) and later "Vanyusha," an even more intimately endearing diminutive. His arrivals and departures at the conservatory set off small riots. Girls sent fresh blossoms to his practice room, and when word got around that he had lost weight and that he suffers from colitis, platoons of females turned up with bags of oranges. One determined girl even popped up in his room at the Hotel Peking...
Official Russia, with an eye cocked to the propaganda values of Cliburn's triumph, was just as ecstatic. At a Kremlin reception, squat Premier Nikita Khrushchev threw his arms about Van's beanpole, 6-ft.-4-in. frame, asked him why he was so tall. Grinned Van: "Because I'm from Texas." At a second Kremlin reception, Khrushchev bore down on Cliburn with hands outstretched, jovially introduced him to his son, daughter and granddaughter. When a waiter appeared with champagne, teetotaling Van shifted from one foot to another, murmured "I really don't care...
...Crimson blades flashed to triumph in all six races on the Charles Saturday, as they easily defeated Syracuse, Navy, M.I.T., and Boston University during the day's events...