Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealand, by the next Douglas Globemaster, came 25 pine trees, four to six feet tall. Yielding gracefully, Navy ground crews planted 24 of them the way the Air Force wanted-even though there had never before been a pine tree in all Antarctica. To add insult to this interservice triumph, the airmen posted a sign showing Smokey the Bear pointing at the snow and a 25th tree. Beneath him was the legend-USE THAT ASHTRAY. KEEP ANTARCTICA GREEN...
...Shame & Triumph. Aisha hated her two years in exile (in Corsica, and later, Madagascar). But while she was away, her star waxed ever brighter in the Moroccan firmament. Moroccan women pinned pictures of the Sultan and Aisha on their walls, slipped back and forth between French and Moroccan lines smuggling arms and revolutionary tracts beneath their flowing djellabahs. Thirteen-year-old girls signed up in clandestine cells of the Istiqlal Party. And in a Moroccan version of Lysistrata, thousands of Moroccan women denied themselves to their husbands for two years for fear of bringing into the world children born under...
...acceptance of U.S. women painters in galleries abroad is a comparatively recent phenomenon, but Marcia Bennett's triumph was far from an isolated example. Two other American women are winning rave notices from European art critics, as if to help Marx disprove what she had said...
Three touchdowns by right half Bruce Johnson, one on a 70-yard run, sparked the Dunster triumph. Charles Hooker registered the only Kirkland tally on a line plunge...
...Keller's boat, grabbing a two-length lead at the Massachusetts Avenue bridge, hung on till the finish to triumph by half a length over Ron Garmey's crew...