Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance floor looked and sounded like dockside when the shrimp boats come in: the U.S. Navy's top dog, Admiral Arleigh Burke, resplendent in dress uniform, hopped and dipped in a modified hornpipe; Minnesota's eupeptic Senator Hubert Humphrey, in white tie and tails, exulted in his triumph as a handsome hit, allowed as how he had it over Florida's George Smathers and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, the two acknowledged best-looking men in the Senate. George Smathers scarcely missed a dance, raced to and fro between his table (for a hasty sip of Scotch...
...collection was the personal triumph as well as the joy of Actor Robinson, who as a boy had been an ardent collector of cigar bands, had moved on to oils 25 years ago (after Little Caesar), when his Hollywood salary jumped from $1,000 to $7,000 a week. Among his prize canvases were Corot's L'ltalienne, Ceézanne's The Black Clock, and masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, and almost every other major French painter of the past half-century. When the collection became notable, Robinson opened his Hollywood home...
Argues Dr. Vossmenge: "In order to triumph over the world-this vulgar, gay, impulsive creature that is the world-you Christians have first to damn it." Retorts Pastor Degenbruck: "What do you know of the soul? The Greeks called this thing which has given you your professional label: psyche or anemos. Anemos means breath or wind . . . They wanted to express that there was something in man which was both intangible and beyond the grasp of reason-like the wind...
...tomb, and a chant just came to me"), the music tells in a plaintive harp opening of the Old Testament tribulations of the Jews, "blows down the Wailing Wall" in a mighty, jumping blast of brass, moves through a lively vibraphone dance to a deafening, full-orchestra crescendo of triumph...
STOCK CONTROL of Britain's automaking Standard Motor Co. has been quietly bought for $4,900,000 by Canada's farm equipment giant, Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., which may turn Standard into Europe's biggest farm-machinery producer. Besides its Standard, Vanguard and Triumph cars, Standard is producing 100,000 Ferguson tractors annually under license deal. Massey holds 18½% of Standard stock, the biggest bloc...