Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumph of "Ten Thousand...
...Crimson administered Princeton's tenth defeat last week, 9 to 1, extending its domination over the Tigers to eight straight. The last Princeton triumph over the varsity was back in February 1953. And in the 95 meetings between these two teams in a series that started in 1902, the Crimson has won 63, lost 30, and tied...
...gripped the tiny state on New Year's Day: whether the salute when fired would honor Republican Christopher Del Sesto, 49, declared the winner by the board of elections (TIME, Dec. 31), or Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 53, who had suddenly challenged Del Sesto's narrow triumph in the State Supreme Court...
...like a comment on some dispatch from London." Hugh Gaitskell disappeared momentarily, but soon returned to end the conversation easily and with-out strain. Then, beaming, he mounted the stairs again, three at a time with momentary secret that the don-turned-politician could soon attain yet another personal triumph...
...young Poet Sandor Petofi and Lajos Kossuth, the lawyer son of a Magyarized Slovak family of the Hungarian petty nobility, together sparked Hungary's most successful revolution. Poet Petofi died in the fight. Lawyer Kossuth went on to proclaim himself the head of an independent Hungary, but his triumph was short-lived. Skillful players at the old European army game, the Habsburgs invited the Russians to move in from the East while they themselves bore down from the West. Between these two juggernauts, Kossuth's puny armies were mercilessly crushed...