Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats took solace in the fact that Ike's victory seemed to be a personal, rather than a party, triumph. "The Democrats are still the majority party." Beer said...
...there is at a peak, that "the rising fires of Arab nationalism" are a threat to world peace. And he won applause when he said that "Israel is not a cause to be cynically remembered by the Administration in late October" but is a "symbol of man's triumph over ... the attempt of Adolf Hitler to destroy a whole people...
...huge bell atop Florence's Palazzo Vecchio pealed tumultuously one night last week, sending cheering Florentines into the streets to celebrate a victory over Roman bureaucracy and a triumph for local art and tourism. The Italian government, which had assembled 33 Italian masterpieces* for a good-will tour of Washington's National Gallery and Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, had bowed to the storm of protest from Italians who wanted their treasures kept right at home, suspended plans to send the show abroad until scientific tests could be made to guarantee that no harm would come...
...present eminence with a ruthless ferocity that awes her enemies and has left her few professional friends. Some have helped her on her way. But from the first the lonely, fat girl from Manhattan saw herself pitted single-handed against a world of enemies. In her triumph, she takes fierce pride in her defiant self-reliance. At La Scala supporters of a rival diva hiss her regularly. It only arouses Callas to cold fury...
...performance was a fair success, and La Scala offered her another guest appearance. But Callas had the scent of triumph in her nostrils. Haughtily, she refused. They would hire her as a full-fledged member of the company, or they would not get her at all. "They expected me to beg for a role. I would rather have died," she told friends. In 1951 La Scala capitulated. At the age of 28, she opened the Scala season in Sicilian Vespers...