Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab politics. Then, in the fury of Arab nationalism, it had seemed that Nuri and not Egypt's Nasser might be the one to fall. Now it was Nasser who had to fear isolation. Nuri was on top, and could survey his victory. In his hour of triumph, he resigned...
Citation: "The range of her renditions reflects the plenitude of a private life in which triumph has been sublimated by tribulation . . . Here in this fabulous city, the scene of so many of her conquests, we would sing her praises even unto the proscenium arch of the high heavens...
...Lexington sunk, in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8). Japan was threatening Australia, and her ships scouted with impunity around the Indian Ocean and Ceylon. The U.S., a long way yet from the glory days of island landings, had to latch on to the one little triumph of Jimmy Doolittle's 30 seconds over Tokyo...
Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 58, German-born novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front, Arch of Triumph); by Else Jeanne Zamboni, 64; for the second time (they were first married in 1923, divorced in 1930, remarried in 1938); in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...olive rose to the top, and bobbed there, mocking him. "Now what would you say?" I said, with just a suspicion of triumph in my voice...