Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment of triumph, Nominee Adlai Stevenson announced a decision that gave the 1956 Democratic Convention its highest, wildest moments: he left the nomination of a vice-presidential candidate entirely to the will and whim of the delegates without a word about his personal choice...
...interdependence of nations reaches perhaps its highest point," said Dulles. "The economic life of many nations has been shaped by reliance on the Suez Canal system, which has treaty sanction. To shake and perhaps shatter that system or to seek gains from threatening to do so, is not a triumph, neither does it augment grandeur. The Suez Canal, by reason of its internationalized character, both in law and in fact, is the last place wherein to seek the means of gaining national triumphs." He made passing reference to Nasser's much quoted Philosophy of the Revolution...
...President Nasser . . . said that Egypt was determined to score one triumph after another in order to enhance what he called 'the grandeur of Egypt.' And he coupled his action with statements about his ambition to extend his influence from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf . . . His seizure of the Canal Company was an angry act of retaliation against fancied grievances...
Last week, with Kenya's political future still dimmed as a result of his remarks, Ewart Scott Grogan gave up the seat he had held on the legislative council since 1929. Kenya conservatism's most flamboyant defender was quitting on a snort of triumph, even though it was apt to be short-lived. "I had to do something positive amid all that yapping and whispering," he said. "I did it, and now I have retired...
...character, a would-be cowpoke who is given to riding a mechanical horse in his Manhattan mansion. This prone ranger suddenly finds himself a sheriff out west, combating a gang of masked raiders. But, with the help of his singing pardner, Dean Martin, he blunders his way to triumph over the baddies. He falls off a horse, ropes himself with a lariat, spills tobacco when he tries to roll a cigarette. It's like that...