Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAVEN, Nov. 23--Some well-spirited Yalie walking out of the Bowl just described this afternoon's exhibition as "Yale's greatest triumph of the century." For his information, the following facts should be noted...
Khrushchev's line, backed by the U.S.S.R.'s scientific triumph with Sputniks I and II, is a bold and daring line indeed, and the spearhead of what may well be modern diplomacy's most brazen propaganda gambit. For if the Communists, whose missilery is a threat of the near future, should succeed by big talk in persuading U.S. allies, and the U.S. itself, that the day of the bomber is over, they could win for Communism a cold-war victory over the most powerful armed force ever assembled-an armed force that in the here...
Eliot never penetrated beyond Jonathan Edwards' 20-yard line, as the Yale team made a second period touchdown stand up all the way for a 7-0 triumph. The Elephants stayed on the ground for virtually the entire game, but met a stiff Edwards forward wall...
...Sputniks. Standing at the rostrum, the bull-necked peasant who now presides over this vast empire savored his time of triumph to the full. For four long hours Nikita Khrushchev boasted of the past and future achievements of the U.S.S.R. In the next five to seven years, he declared, Soviet industry would "fully satisfy . . . footwear and fabric requirements." In ten or twelve years there would be an end to Russia's acute housing shortage. Best of all, "the Soviet Union in the next 15 years can not only catch up with the U.S. in the production of basic items...
Their most notable triumph was over Yale, early in the season; but this victory has been more than offset by losses to Columbia and Dartmouth, and most recently, to Princeton and Cornell...