Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Kansas shows up with his wife and lots of socially unaceptable notions. Drama begins when the St. Clair diamonds disappear, and everybody from Peter, to poor but proud, to the butler with the shady record is suspect. In the long run, love, sex, liquor, and all the virtues triumph...
...Strain. Until pressed, Ron simply races from slower triumph to triumph with unabashed self-assurance. Off the track he moves with equal ease. Training may cause him to cut classes (advertising, banking, economics) a little too often, but he still gets better than average grades. Even when he is entered in out-of-town meets he tries to get back home in time to direct traffic before Sunday Mass at St. Thomas of Villanova Church...
Quizman Nadler's success is a triumph of mind over manner. On the kind of show that hallows what it calls the "upbeat" personality, he is an offbeat figure: a small (5 ft. 4 in., 152 Ib.) man with an oppressed air, an uneasy smile and a cocky way of blurting his answers. His pronunciation is occasionally mangled, e.g., Joan of Arc was "beautified" in 1909. And his replies are so swift and sure, so full of extraneous details that come gushing with almaniacal glee that the show's producers feared at first that the show would seem...
...pals celebrated a signal victory. By a margin of 2,754 votes (out of a record 34,883), Telles routed the incumbent mayor, and his People's slate won by a landslide in the Democratic primary, which in Texas is really election. Juan Smiths rejoiced, for Telles' triumph meant that El Paso, for the first time in its history, will have a Mexican-American mayor. One Telles supporter, who had heard the glad tidings south of the border, wrote Pooley last week: "Mexican citizens were giving Americans abrazos [embraces]. It was the damndest thing I ever heard...
...Bellboys' triumph was a team effort, as five players joined in the scoring; Ed Harding had two; and Sam Wolcott, Dave Dearborn, Bill Henry and Norman Marsh scored one apiece...