Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Satisfying Slap. Mike Mansfield had scored a major triumph. His amendment 1) gave the Democrats something solid to show for all the nagging, 2) enabled them to get in a hard, satisfying slap at Ike and Dulles while assuming a statesmanlike stance and, incidentally, 3) justified Harry Truman's 1950 decision to send U.S. forces into Korea without congressional authorization...
...Saud, with whom he met after seeing the President, Illah was speaking for a bloc-Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq-which is already closely allied with the West through membership (with Britain) in the Baghdad Pact. Altogether it was a concert of Middle Eastern voices that seemed at last to triumph over the clanking dirge from Egypt's Nasser (who nonetheless still speaks with the most influential single voice in the area...
...little jackass"), even slapped her occasionally. Nor did she mince words with the too-solicitous Captain (Burl Ives) and Mrs. Keller (Katharine Bard): "Helen's worst handicap isn't blindness, it's your love and pity . . ." The story closed movingly on Annie's first real triumph with Helen. As water trickled from the garden pump over her fingers, Helen made her first association between a word-water-and a thing. Although Annie had repudiated love throughout the ordeal, in the end she wrote in Helen's hand: "I, love, you," and rarely in TV drama...
After Australia's Davis Cup triumph, Australians and New Zealanders could be forgiven the notion that tennis down under is the best in the world. Then the pros came to town, and local pride went back into the marsupial pouch. Aussie Ken Rosewall hardly belonged on the court with Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales...
Last week Grundig started to move his middle-cost and high-quality production talents beyond the electronics field. He took over more than 50% interest in Germany's famed Triumph-Werke, which does a $17 million yearly business manufacturing typewriters, office equipment, bicycles. As with all his other investments, every pfennig he paid was Grundig...