Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court injunctions, and ultimatums from the AFL-CIO to achieve one of the most powerful executive positions in organized labor, but his victory will come as a surprise to no one. One thing, however, is certain: Hoffa is now in a fight that started, rather than ended with his triumph at Miami Beach last week...
...away at sunny Sea Island, having kept in telephone touch, Orval Faubus proclaimed his triumph: "The trouble in Little Rock vindicates my good judgment." But the grin was soon wiped off his face by the dramatic rush of events in Washington and Newport...
...Maria Laach near Bonn, where he had taken refuge for almost a year during the worst days of being Nazi-blacklisted before the war. In one respect the Chancellor's hour-and-a-half meditation in the monastery gardens was like all his actions of his week of triumph: he kept a discreet silence about his intentions, as is the victor's prerogative. The opposition Socialists, on the other hand, might be expected to hold a noisy post mortem to complain about the lackluster campaign by roly-poly Erich Ollenhauer, but the important Hamburg state election comes...
This impressive book, sixth and next to last installment in Will Durant's massive Story of Civilization, retraces that battle in half a million highly readable words. Painstaking, broadminded and fluent, The Reformation is a triumph for 71-year-old Author Durant, who combines an encyclopedist's passion for detail with a philosopher's ability to generalize and a good storyteller's sense of anecdote...
...Equatorial Africa-stirring tales of hardship and struggle, replete with flying spears, poisoned arrows, and many a gentle rebuke from Stanley's elephant gun. Before Stanley died peacefully in bed in 1904, he seemed compelled again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer), German-born governor of a British-controlled province in the Sudan. The Pasha had been trapped in the interior during the Mahdi's uprising, was even more reluctant to be found than...