Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking a Bow. As if to temper Nye Bevan's satisfaction, the conference in its later stages turned into a triumph for the moderate Gaitskell. After ten months of leadership (the leader chosen by the party's 277 M.P.s), Gaitskell faced the whole party for the first time. The delegates were cool toward him in the beginning, but warmed to the speech, delivered with confidence and fervor, with which Gaitskell wound up a later debate. The cheers kept on until Gaitskell rose and took a bow-a tribute almost never tendered at Laborite conventions. Raising a hand...
...usually guilty of, his grip on the emotions is as firm as ever-because the book is so uncomfortably a reminder of that streak of injustice that lives in every man. Until the last page Boulle keeps alive the hope that the streak will subside and that conscience will triumph. As a realist-and a Frenchman-can he let anything like that happen...
...ulcer cases, a merry man with an Irishman's gregariousness and a leprechaun's smile. He has known the bitterness of defeat, when in 1954 he inherited a team of Big Ten co-champions and lost six out of nine games. He has known the joy of triumph, when his Spartans last year rolled over Big Ten opposition and into the Rose Bowl to defeat U.C.L.A. 17-14. Of his last year's success, Daugherty is deprecatory: "I should give a lot of credit for last year's success to my staff. That's only...
...LOUIS, Sept. 28--Milwaukee's chance to take a commanding lead in the National League pennant battle was ruined tonight as the St. Louis Cardinals combined Ken Boyer's three-run double with some staunch relief pitching by Lindy McDaniel and Larry Jackson for a 5-4 triumph over the Braves...
...house," implied that the country was being run by Richard Nixon and the Eisenhower Cabinet. Only when he strayed onto subjects dealing with his own political idealism did Stevenson sound like himself. "Our plan for 20th century man," he said, "is not just for his survival, but for his triumph . . . Trust the people...